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Up In Smoke: From Legislation to Litigation in Tobacco Politics.
GIC Collection at Penn Libraries
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Derthick, Martha A.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Political Science.
- Local Subjects:
- Political Science.
- Edition:
- Second edition.
- Summary:
- Ushering in a new era in tobacco politics in 1994, state attorneys general sued cigarette manufacturers for the harm they had done to public health. These lawsuits culminated in the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA), directing an estimated $240 billion to state governments and imposed new marketing and advertising restrictions. In her second edition, Martha Derthick introduces new evidence from five years of experience under the MSA to show that the states were more interested in raising revenue than in improving tobacco control and that the agreement, ironically, has spawned the rise of small, upstart cigarette manufacturers. She concludes that the MSA not only produced flawed public policy that flouted the American system of checks and balances, but has done little to improve or better safeguard public health.
- ISBN:
- 9781568028958
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