Regulating Tobacco

Informationen zum Autor Robert L. Rabin is A. Calder Mackay Professor of Law at Stanford University. Stephen D. Sugarman is Agnes Roddy Robb Professor of Law at the University of California, Berkeley. Klappentext The proliferation of lawsuits against the tobacco industry has had profound implications for American health policy, tort law, civil law, and welfare and social policy. Since the publication of Rabin and Sugarman's Smoking Policy, class action suits, FDA regulation, clean air legislation, health insurance reimbursement, and extensive advertising have brought tobacco to the forefront of national and public policy debates.This collection includes essays by eleven leading public health experts, economists, physicians, political scientists, and lawyers, whose activities encompass Congressional testimonies, Surgeon General's reports on youth smoking, and clinical trials for drugs for smoking cessation. They analyzespecific strategies that have been used to influence tobacco use--including taxation, regulation of advertising and promotion, regulation of indoor smoking, control of youth access to cigarettes and other tobacco products, litigation, and subsidies of smoking cessation--and set them against thelatest scientific findings about tobacco use and the changing cultural and political setting against which policy decisions are being made.In addition to Rabin and Sugarman, contributors include Frank Chaloupka, Peter Jacobson, Robert Kagan, Nancy Rigotti, John Slade, and Ken Warner. Zusammenfassung These essays analyse strategies that have been used to influence tobacco use, e.g. taxation, regulation of advertising, regulation of indoor smoking, control of youth access to cigarettes and more, and sets them against scientific findings about tobacco and the changing cultural and political setting against which policy decisions are being made.

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• Autori: Robert L Rabin, Robert L Sugarman Rabin, Robert L. Rabin, Robert L. Sugarman Rabin, Robert Sugarman Rabin, Stephen D. Sugarman, Sugarman Stephen D.
• Con la collaborazione di: Robert L. Rabin (Editore), Stephen D. Sugarman (Editore)
• Editore: Oxford University Press
• Lingue: Inglese
• Formato: Tascabile
• Pubblicazione: 01.11.2001
• EAN: 9780195147568
• ISBN: 978-0-19-514756-8
• Pagine: 310
• Categorie: Scienze sociali, diritto, economia > Scienze politiche > Scienze politiche e cittadinanza attiva; England, Wales, Advertising, MEDICAL / Public Health, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Advertising & Promotion, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Disease & Health Issues, LAW / Commercial / General, BUSINESS & ECONOMICS / Industries / Manufacturing, LAW / Taxation, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Personal & public health, Tobacco industry, Manufacturing industries, Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Personal and public health / health education, Taxation and duties law, Taxation & duties law, Sale of goods law, Wales / Cymru