Up in smoke : from legislation to litigation in tobacco politics

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Title:

Author:

Derthick, Martha.

ISBN:

9781452202235

Personal Author:

Derthick, Martha.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Publication Information:

Washington, D.C. : CQ Press, 2012.

Physical Description:

xiv, 265 pages : illustrations ; 23 cm

Contents:

A new way of regulating tobacco -- The ordinary politics of legislation -- Ordinary torts : litigation before it was substituted for legislation -- The drive for FDA regulation -- The new wave of litigation -- The changed context of policymaking -- The 1997 settlement dies in Congress -- The FDA regulations die in court -- The Master Settlement Agreement of 1998 -- The aftermath of the MSA -- After litigation a return to legislation -- Ordinary politics versus adversarial legalism.

Subject Term:

Tobacco -- Law and legislation -- United States.

Tobacco -- Government policy -- United States.

Products liability -- Tobacco -- United States -- History.

Electronic Access:

Table of contents http://catdir.loc.gov/catdir/toc/fy12pdf01/2011025063.html

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Summary

In recent years, tobacco politics has been a multi-layered issue fraught with significant legal, commercial, and public policy implications. From the outset, Martha A. Derthick′s Up in Smoke took a nuanced look at tobacco politics in a new era of "adversarial legalism" and the consequences, both intended and unintended, of the MSA (Master Settlement Agreement).

Now, with a brand new 3rd edition , the book returns to "ordinary politics" and the passage of the Family Smoking Prevention and Tobacco Control Act which gave the FDA broad authority to regulate both the manufacture and marketing of tobacco products. Derthick shows our political institutions working as they should, even if slowly, with partisanship and interest group activity playing their part in putting restraints on cigarette smoking.