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The New Cigarette Paternalism
(Regulation, 2002)
Smoking is by far the largest single risk that most people take. Perhaps in part because of that prominence, smoking has been the target of a wide variety of regulations and legal action. The controversy over tobacco ...
From Cash Crop to Cash Cow
(Regulation, 1997)
The 1990s have witnessed a blizzard of antismoking efforts. Hillary Clinton and a variety of supporters of the Clinton health care plan urged dramatically higher cigarette taxes to pay for expanded health insurance ...
The Governmental Composition of the Insurance Costs of Smoking
(Journal of Law and Economics, 1999)
The estimated health risks from smoking have significant external financial consequences
for society. Studies at the national level indicate that cigarettes are selffinancing since external costs such as those due to ...