All Posts Tagged With: "big tobacco"
The Myth of Unregulated Tobacco
On June 22, President Obama signed the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act (FSPTCA), a law that gives the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) regulatory authority over tobacco products. The law requires the FDA to develop a new tobacco-regulation center with all related costs to be covered by fees paid by the industry. [...]
19Aug2009 | Bruce Yandle | 0 comments | ContinuedI Never Dream of Nicotine
Ted Roberts is a freelance writer in Huntsville, Alabama. Such is the intensity of tobacco litigation that every day somewhere in this great nation there’s a judge, lawyer, or juror pondering the evils of the weed. The sun never sets on tobacco litigation. Tobacco is addictive, say the trial lawyers. All I know is that [...]
1May2003 | Ted Roberts | 0 comments | ContinuedIt Just Ain’t So!
Harvard University law professor Einer Elhauge argued in the Washington Post last summer that free-market economists who oppose the multibillion-dollar tobacco litigation have made a big mistake. Professor Elhauge writes that opponents are apparently unaware that for the past 40 years the tobacco companies conspired in order “not to independently market safer tobacco products” and [...]
1Dec1998 | Thomas J. DiLorenzo | 0 comments | ContinuedThe Nanny State
I’ve never smoked. I even dislike being near lit cigarettes. (Cigar and pipe-smoke don’t bother me.) Moreover, I’m sure that smoking is addictive and unhealthy. Nevertheless, the ballyhooed “tobacco settlement” announced in June leaves a taste in my mouth far more foul than would be left by choking my way through an entire carton of [...]
1Sep1997 | Donald J. Boudreaux | 2 comments | Continued-
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