All Posts Tagged With: "cigarettes"
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 | ContinuedA Question of Intent: A Great American Battle with a Deadly Industry
How should we regard the tobacco industry? Specifically, how should we view its actions before the late 1990s, when a combination of regulatory and litigation onslaughts changed its very nature? Before that time, was the industry engaged in dishonestly hooking the public on a product that it knew to be deadly, or was it legitimately [...]
1Sep2002 | Sam Kazman | 1 comment | ContinuedJust a Cigar
Jacob Sullum is a syndicated columnist, a senior editor at Reason, and the author of For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health (The Free Press). In July the Federal Trade Commission recommended that Congress require warning labels on cigars. One of the warnings suggested by the FTC nicely illustrates [...]
1Nov1999 | Jacob Sullum | 2 comments | ContinuedTaxation by Litigation Threatens Every American Business
Abusing the legal system for political, social, or greedy ends is fast becoming America’s favorite pastime. Billions of dollars, millions of jobs, and the survival of legitimate businesses are at stake. And if the Clinton administration’s latest lawsuit fantasy proceeds, Katie bar the door: government itself will become the biggest abuser of them all—with the [...]
1Sep1999 | Lawrence W. Reed | 0 comments | ContinuedLying Government Ads
Tibor Machan is a professor at the Leatherby Center of Chapman University, California, and research fellow at the Hoover Institution, Stanford, California. His latest book is Generosity: Virtue in Civil Society (Cato Institute, 1998). As I was driving to the pharmacy not long ago, I heard a “public service” radio announcement, crafted by some California [...]
1Mar1998 | Tibor R. Machan | 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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