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People vs. Big Tobacco : How the States Took on the Cigarette Giants by Jeffrey Rothfeder, Adam Levy, Joseph Menn and Carrick Mollenkamp (1998, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherWiley & Sons, Incorporated, John
ISBN-101576600572
ISBN-139781576600573
eBay Product ID (ePID)289489
Product Key Features
Number of Pages300 Pages
Publication NamePeople Vs. Big Tobacco : How the States Took on the Cigarette Giants
LanguageEnglish
SubjectConsumer, General, Physiology, Legal History, Alternative Dispute Resolution, Industries / Manufacturing
Publication Year1998
TypeTextbook
AuthorJeffrey Rothfeder, Adam Levy, Joseph Menn, Carrick Mollenkamp
Subject AreaLaw, Business & Economics, Medical
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.3 in
Item Weight25.8 Oz
Item Length9.6 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN00-000000
Dewey Edition21
TitleLeadingThe
IllustratedYes
Dewey Decimal346.7303/8
SynopsisMemphis, Tennessee, 1993. Attorney Michael Lewis looks into the emaciated face of his friend, a lifelong smoker dying of cancer, and resolves that something has to change -- Big Tobacco must be held accountable for the human and financial wreckage their products leave behind.Four years later, Mississippi Attorney General Mike Moore stands at his microphone in the ballroom of the ANA Hotel in Washington, DC, and announces to the nation that Big Tobacco has just conceded the most gigantic legal settlement in the history of the world -- $368.5 billion. As Moore outlines the points of the plan, it is clear that America's relationship with tobacco is about to be transformed forever. Sweeping changes in the regulation and marketing of cigarettes and smokeless tobacco are about to take place; the companies will pay heavily for their lies, denials, and evasions. Joe Camel and the Marlboro Man will never again woo another teenager...For the first time, the facts behind the scorching of Big Tobacco are woven into a single investigative narrative. Written in the fast-paced, riveting style of A Civil Action by a reporting team positioned -- from the beginning -- inside the frame with key players from all sides of the legal battleground, The People vs. Big Tobacco lets readers become insiders themselves in one of the most amazing social and financial dramas of our century., For the first time, the facts behind the scorching of Big Tobacco are woven into a single investigative narrative. Written in the fast-paced, riveting style by a reporting team positioned from the beginning inside the frame with key players from all sides of the legal battleground, this book lets readers become insiders themselves in one of the most amazing social and financial dramas of our century. Photos., Provides an investigative narrative of the trial that led to the biggest legal settlement in history by the tobacco industry, and the impact of that decision on America.
LC Classification NumberKF226.P46 1998
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