Business, politics, and cigarettes multiple levels, multiple agendas
Title:
Business, politics, and cigarettes multiple levels, multiple agendas
Author:
McGowan, Richard, 1952-
ISBN:
9780313036057
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Publication Information:
Westport, Conn. : Quorum Books, 1995.
Physical Description:
1 online resource (ix, 168 p.) : ill.
Contents:
Preface; PART I: THE CIGARETTE INDUSTRY AND GOVERNMENT; 1. Introduction to the Cigarette-Government Controversy; 2. The History of Government Regulation of the Cigarette Industry: A Three-Wave Model; 3. A Convergence Model for Business and Public Policy; PART II: CIGARETTE SALES, CIGARETTE PRICES, AND STATE EXCISE TAX POLICY; 4. Evaluating the Effects of Second-Wave Policies on Cigarette Sales; 5. The Cigarette Excise Tax: The Public Policy Measure of the Third Wave of Regulation; 6. The States and Cigarette Excise Taxes: Dependency, Revenue, and Competition.
Abstract:
The American cigarette industry is again facing enormous pressure from various groups whose goal is a smoke free society. What differentiates this present wave from the previous two waves of regulation faced by the cigarette industry is the severity with which these measures are applied by the state and local government who are enacting anti-smoking laws and regulations and increased excise taxes. Cigarette taxes are a lucrative revenue for the states, which they must ultimately trade-off with their stated goals of deterring smoking. Frequently, in spite of the needs of public health, states f.
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