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FindLaw Legal News: Tobacco
Updates on tobacco law from international to local, tobacco ligitation updates, and tobacco industry documents that feature in tobacco law.
http://news.findlaw.com/legalnews/lit/toba...
Report and Recommendations of the Ad Hoc Advisory Committee on Tobacco Investments
University of Michigan considers whether to own tobacco stock; a report of the committee appointed to study the question.
http://www.umich.edu/~urel/Tobacco/tobrept...
Corpwatch - Tobacco, Free Trade and Globalization
Articles addressing how restricting tobacco is getting harder to do as the world drops trade restrictions and economies become intertwined.
http://corpwatch.org/article.php?list=type...
Anti-Tobacco Measures Prevent Cancer
California's tough anti-smoking measures and public health campaigns have resulted in a 14% decrease in lung cancer.
http://www.cancer.org/docroot/NWS/content/...
Tobacco Legal and Policy Issues
Papers on state laws on tobacco control, preemptive state tobacco laws, attitudes towards smoking in different states, effectiveness of tobacco control programs, and MMWR reports.
http://www.cdc.gov/tobacco/policy.htm
Addressing Tobacco In Managed Care
Set of research articles on how and why tobacco use is a priority in managed care, and what can be done about it.
http://tc.bmjjournals.com/content/vol9/sup...
Cigarette Law
Article in law digest reviews the history of how cigarettes got exempted from almost all product liability law, and considers if the behavior of the tobacco industry would have been different without those exemptions.
http://www.law.indiana.edu/ilj/v73/no3/giv...
AMWA Position Paper: Tobacco Control and Prevention
The American Medical Womens Association outlines its stand and proposed policy initiatives.
http://www.amwa-doc.org/index.cfm?objectid...
The Effect of Tobacco Advertising Bans on Tobacco Consumption
Paper in the Journal of Health Economics; concludes that comprehensive bans reduce consumption, limited bans have little or no effect.
http://www.nber.org/papers/W6958
Addressing Tobacco in Managed Care
Tobacco use reduction conferences, papers, research results, and best practices of interest to health plans; health effects; secondhand smoke; effectivess of media campaigns; effectiveness of quit smoking methods.
http://www.ahip.org/content/default.aspx?b...
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