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Jan 1, 2008
Calculating the 'Big Kill'
Dr. Brad RoduIn 1985, the British Medical Association and Health Education Council published The Big Kill, a series of booklets estimating the number of people killed by smoking in England and Wales. Assigning a “precise” number of deaths to a risky behavior provided opponents with a powerful and often persuasive weapon. For two decades ...
Jun 1, 2006
Tobacco Deadly in Any Form or Disguise
Dr Jack Henningfield, Dr Katharine Hammond and Others19233 ...
Mar 1, 2004
Tobacco Settlement: States' Allocations of Fiscal Year 2003 and Expected Fiscal Year 2004 Payments
U.S. General Accounting Office Staff14734 ...
Nov 1, 2002
Addicted to Tobacco Taxes
Robert A. LevyArizona’s politicians can’t make up their minds about tobacco. When Arizona sued the cigarette makers in 1996, the state minced no words in describing the pernicious effects of smoking: “Tobacco products are not only addictive, they are abnormally dangerous and unfit for human use. Tobacco products kill, maim, and injure virtually ...
Apr 1, 2002
Confusing, Misleading CDC Figures on Economic Costs of Smoking
Stephen J. Entin8899 ...
Aug 1, 2001
Tobacco and Women's Health
Catherine L. Maroney, Andrea Sesko, and Elizabeth M. Whelan8393 ...
Dec 1, 1998
Lies, Damned Lies, & 400,000 Smoking-Related Deaths
Robert A. Levy and Rosalind B. Marimont" Truth was an early victim in the battle against tobacco." The big lie, repeated ad nauseam in anti-tobacco circles, is that smoking causes more than 400,000 premature deaths each year in the United States. That mantra is the principal justification for all manner of tobacco regulations and legislation, not to mention lawsuits ...
Jun 1, 1997
Smoking, Insurance, and Social Cost
Robert E. McCormick, Robert Tollison, and Richard E. Wagner1545 ...
Our 'Damned Lies' Spark Another Exchange
Alicia M. Lukachko and Elizabeth Wheelan; Robert Levy and Rosalind Marimont7259 ...