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Author : Harold Lavine
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 218 pages
Book Rating : 4.79/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smoke-filled Rooms written by Harold Lavine and published by . This book was released on 1970 with total page 218 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : W. Kip Viscusi
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 0226857484
Total Pages : 263 pages
Book Rating : 4.80/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smoke-Filled Rooms written by W. Kip Viscusi and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2010-02-15 with total page 263 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The 1998 out-of-court settlements of litigation by the states against the cigarette industry totaled $243 billion, making it the largest payoff ever in our civil justice system. Two key questions drove the lawsuits and the attendant settlement: Do smokers understand the risks of smoking? And does smoking impose net financial costs on the states? With Smoke-Filled Rooms,W. Kip Viscusi provides unexpected answers to these questions, drawing on an impressive range of data on several topics central to the smoking policy debate. Based on surveys of smokers in the United States and Spain, for instance, he demonstrates that smokers actually overestimate the dangers of smoking, indicating that they are well aware of the risks involved in their choice to smoke. And while smoking does increase medical costs to the states, Viscusi finds that these costs are more than financially balanced by the premature mortality of smokers, which reduces their demands on state pension and health programs, so that, on average, smoking either pays for itself or generates revenues for the states. Viscusi's eye-opening assessment of the tobacco lawsuits also includes policy recommendations that could frame these debates in a more productive way, such as his suggestion that the FDA should develop a rating system for cigarettes and other tobacco products based on their relative safety, thus providing an incentive for tobacco manufacturers to compete among themselves to produce safer cigarettes. Viscusi's hard look at the facts of smoking and its costs runs against conventional thinking. But it is also necessary for an informed and realistic debate about the legal, financial, and social consequences of the tobacco lawsuits. People making $50,000 or more pay .08 percent of their income in cigarette taxes, but people with incomes of less than $10,000 pay 1.62 percenttwenty times as much. The maintenance crew at the Capitol will bear more of the "sin tax" levied on cigarettes than will members of Congress who voted to boost it. Cigarettes are not a financial drain to the U.S. In fact, they are self-financing, as a consequence of smokers' premature mortality. The general public estimates that 47 out of 100 smokers will die from lung cancer because they smoke. Smokers believe that 40 out of 100 will die of the disease. Scientists estimate the actual number of 100 smokers who will die from lung cancer to be between 7 and 13.
Author : Kris Nelscott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312982904
Total Pages : 340 pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smoke-Filled Rooms written by Kris Nelscott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2002-06-17 with total page 340 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this sequel to "A Dangerous Road, " P.I. Smokey Dalton escapes Memphis with 10-year-old Jimmy, a witness to the assassination of Martin Luther King, Jr. Their new beginning in Chicago is shattered by the events leading up to the 1968 Democratic National Convention. Smokey does all he can to protect Jimmy from the police--and the rogue FBI agent Smokey feels is following them. Martin's Press. (June)
Author : Eitan Hersh
Publisher : Scribner
ISBN 13 : 1982116781
Total Pages : 288 pages
Book Rating : 4.81/5 ( download)
Download or read book Politics Is for Power written by Eitan Hersh and published by Scribner. This book was released on 2020-01-14 with total page 288 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A brilliant condemnation of political hobbyism—treating politics like entertainment—and a call to arms for well-meaning, well-informed citizens who consume political news, but do not take political action. Who is to blame for our broken politics? The uncomfortable answer to this question starts with ordinary citizens with good intentions. We vote (sometimes) and occasionally sign a petition or attend a rally. But we mainly “engage” by consuming politics as if it’s a sport or a hobby. We soak in daily political gossip and eat up statistics about who’s up and who’s down. We tweet and post and share. We crave outrage. The hours we spend on politics are used mainly as pastime. Instead, we should be spending the same number of hours building political organizations, implementing a long-term vision for our city or town, and getting to know our neighbors, whose votes will be needed for solving hard problems. We could be accumulating power so that when there are opportunities to make a difference—to lobby, to advocate, to mobilize—we will be ready. But most of us who are spending time on politics today are focused inward, choosing roles and activities designed for our short-term pleasure. We are repelled by the slow-and-steady activities that characterize service to the common good. In Politics Is for Power, pioneering and brilliant data analyst Eitan Hersh shows us a way toward more effective political participation. Aided by political theory, history, cutting-edge social science, as well as remarkable stories of ordinary citizens who got off their couches and took political power seriously, this book shows us how to channel our energy away from political hobbyism and toward empowering our values.
Author : Wallace Lawson Jernigan
Publisher : iUniverse
ISBN 13 : 145027689X
Total Pages : 281 pages
Book Rating : 4.94/5 ( download)
Download or read book Those Smoke-Filled Rooms written by Wallace Lawson Jernigan and published by iUniverse. This book was released on 2011-01-20 with total page 281 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Wallace Jernigan has somehow managed to fill the time allotted for one life with a multitude of lives well-lived. His thirst for knowledge made him a civil engineer, a businessman, a beekeeper, and a licensed mortician. His zeal for adventure led him into politics, music, and bear hunting. But that's not even half the story. In this tale of the first half of his life, Wallace traces a personal journey from 1925 to 1962, from the Great Depression to Desegregation. With his trademark sense of good humor and his genuine love for people, he tells the story of his unique American adventure. From rural southern Georgia and his beloved Okefenokee Swamp to the heights of state political power under the Gold Dome in Atlanta, Wallace Jernigan tells his story. He lifts the veil off the headlines from the Atlanta newspapers to show how life and politics really operated in the middle of the twentieth century. Come on in and see who's in "Those Smoke-Filled Rooms."
Author : Kris Nelscott
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781452470719
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.15/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smoke-Filled Rooms written by Kris Nelscott and published by . This book was released on 2012 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : St. Martin's Press
Publisher : Saint Martin's Paperbacks
ISBN 13 : 9780312980955
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.57/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smoke-Filled Room written by St. Martin's Press and published by Saint Martin's Paperbacks. This book was released on with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Author : Kris Nelscott
Publisher : Macmillan
ISBN 13 : 9780312976439
Total Pages : 356 pages
Book Rating : 4.37/5 ( download)
Download or read book A Dangerous Road written by Kris Nelscott and published by Macmillan. This book was released on 2001-06-18 with total page 356 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In February, 1968, African-American P.I. Smokey Dalton is hired by white Laura Hathaway to find out why he's in her mother's will. Amid his investigation, riots erupt from a Memphis sanitation workers' strike, and Smokey's childhood friend, Martin Luther King, Jr., is due in town for a march. Martin's Press.
Author : Sarah Milov
Publisher : Harvard University Press
ISBN 13 : 0674241215
Total Pages : 401 pages
Book Rating : 4.13/5 ( download)
Download or read book The Cigarette written by Sarah Milov and published by Harvard University Press. This book was released on 2019-10-02 with total page 401 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The story of tobacco’s fortunes seems simple: science triumphed over addiction and profit. Yet the reality is more complicated—and more political. Historically it was not just bad habits but also the state that lifted the tobacco industry. What brought about change was not medical advice but organized pressure: a movement for nonsmoker’s rights.
Author : Aaron Gulbransen
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781537274300
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.09/5 ( download)
Download or read book Smoke Filled Rooms written by Aaron Gulbransen and published by . This book was released on 2016-10-19 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: What's the funniest thing that's ever happened to you? For Ronnie Davison, it was being bit in the gonads by an overexcited dog. But that's just one story his friends love to recall about him-and he's got plenty to tell about them, too. Ronnie's friends come from different walks and stages of life, but they all agree there's nothing better than a good cigar. So that's why they frequent Bobby Peck's cigar shop as often as they can. From the highly successful political consultant to the bearlike mountain man, they also all work in politics in one way or another. In fact, they can't help but swap stories as they linger at Bobby's. Whether it's about unwanted guests in their hotel rooms, court cases that read like a comedy sketch, or the strange habits some of them pick up when they're a bit too drunk (raw bacon, anyone?), the hilarity of their industry never escapes them. Filled with humor, these stories show how true friends stay together even if they hold different opinions-especially if they share a love for cigars.
