Up in Smoke
From Legislation to Litigation in Tobacco Politics
2nd Edition
Published on 23. August 2004
Book
Paperback/Softback
248 pages
978-1-56802-895-8 (ISBN)
Description
In a landmark report by the U.S. Surgeon General in 1964, the government warned its citizens of the adverse effects of smoking on their health and took a series of steps to discourage smoking. These steps stemmed from &BAD:ldquo;ordinary politics&BAD:rdquo; &BAD:ndash;that is, actions taken or authorized by legislatures. 1994 heralded a new era in tobacco politics: of &BAD:ldquo;adversarial legalism,&BAD:rdquo; wherein state attorneys general sued leading cigarette manufacturers for the harm they had done to public health. These law-suits culminated in the Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) that directed an estimated $250 billion to state governments over the next 25 years and imposed new marketing and advertising restrictions.In her second edition, Martha Derthick introduces new evidence from 5 years of experience under the MSA to show that the states were more interested in raising revenue than in improving tobacco control, that the enrichment of wealthy tort lawyers violated the legal profession's ethics, and that the agreement, ironically, spawned the rise of small, upstart cigarette manufacturers able to undersell the major companies. In this clearly written, fast-paced case study, Derthick concludes that the tobacco lawsuits 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.
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Edition
2nd Revised edition
Language
English
Place of publication
Washington
United States
Publishing group
SAGE Publications Inc
Target group
College/higher education
Professional and scholarly
Edition type
Revised edition
Weight
386 gr
ISBN-13
978-1-56802-895-8 (9781568028958)
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Martha Derthick retired in 1999 from the Department of Government and
Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where she was the Julia Allen
Cooper Professor. She is the author of numerous books on American government,
including: Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy (editor, 1999)
; Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American
Government (1990); The Politics of Deregulation (with Paul J. Quirk,
1985); and Policymaking for Social Security (1979), which won the
Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association as the best book
of the year on American public policy. Before going to the University of
Virginia, she was for twelve years a member of the Governmental Studies Program
of The Brookings Institution, and was the program's director between 1978 and
1983. She has also taught at Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Harvard
University, and Boston College.
Foreign Affairs at the University of Virginia, where she was the Julia Allen
Cooper Professor. She is the author of numerous books on American government,
including: Dilemmas of Scale in America's Federal Democracy (editor, 1999)
; Agency Under Stress: The Social Security Administration in American
Government (1990); The Politics of Deregulation (with Paul J. Quirk,
1985); and Policymaking for Social Security (1979), which won the
Kammerer Prize of the American Political Science Association as the best book
of the year on American public policy. Before going to the University of
Virginia, she was for twelve years a member of the Governmental Studies Program
of The Brookings Institution, and was the program's director between 1978 and
1983. She has also taught at Dartmouth College, Stanford University, Harvard
University, and Boston College.