Smoke Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal

by W. Kip Viscusi

Book Overview

The 1998 out-of-court settlements of litigation by the states against the cigarette industry totaled $243 billion, making it the largest payoff ever in our civil justice system. Two key questions drove the lawsuits and the attendant settlement: Do smokers understand the risks of smoking? And does smoking impose net financial costs on the states?

With Smoke-Filled Rooms, W. Kip Viscusi provides unexpected answers to these questions, drawing...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226857476
• ISBN13: 9780226857473
• Release Date: June 2002
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 263 Pages
• Weight: 1.30 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.2" x 9.4"