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Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmorten on the Tobacco Deal.(Book Review)-

Publication: Trial
Publication Date: 01-MAR-03
Format: Online - approximately 562 words
Delivery: Immediate Online Access
Full Article Title: Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmorten on the Tobacco Deal.(Book Review)-(book review)

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W. Kip Viscusi The University of Chicago Press www.press.uchicago.edu 263 pp., $27.50

If tobacco-policy issues interest you then you will want to read Smoke-Filled Rooms: A Postmortem on the Tobacco Deal. In his critique of the $243 billion settlement with the states, this tobacco-industry expert argues that the settlement was more about politics and money than public health.

A former mouthpiece in the mid-1990s for the tobacco industry, author W. Kip Viscusi carries that bias into his analysis of current legal issues related...

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