In this incredible story that reads like a legal thriller, Michael Orey recounts the unprecedented defeat of big tobacco. In 1985, Nathan Horton, a building contractor in rural Mississippi, developed a chronic ache in his left shoulder. A year and a half later, he was dead from lung cancer. In his final, painful months, Horton had filed suit against the manufacturer of the cigarettes he had smoked for more than thirty years. Horton, who was black, found a most unlikely lawyer to pursue his cause with near-religious zeal: Don Barrett, an arch-segregationist in his youth and an unapologetic defender of the Old South. When he took up his dying neighbor's case, Barrett knew full well that no tobacco company had ever paid a cent to anyone who claimed that smoking had harmed their health. Smokers, the cigarette makers said, assumed the risk of their habit. Now Barrett was also assuming an enormous risk, taking on the all-powerful tobacco industry. In the end, the chain of events unleashed by Nathan Horton's suit culminated in the largest legal settlement in American history. The individuals joining forces in Mississippi included a washed-up actor-turned-paralegal who copied thousands of pages of internal company documents; a Gulf Coast lawyer whose almost accidental foray into asbestos litigation had made him a multimillionaire; and the state's maverick attorney general, who authorized a pioneering suit against the tobacco industry to make it pay for the health care costs of smoking. In riveting detail, journalist Michael Orey tells how these people came together and did what no one else before them had: defeat the tobacco industry. Orey weaves up-close, personal accounts of their lives with a dramatic recounting of their battle against the cigarette makers, one that ended in nationwide settlements totaling more than $200 billion. Assuming the Risk is an engrossing, behind-the-scenes chronicle of one of the highest-stakes legal battles ever fought.
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The historical significance contained in Smoked: The Inside Story of the Minnesota Tobacco Trial cannot be denied. In addition to a $7.1 billion settlement, 30 million pages of tobacco industry documents are now available to the public, and will be featured players in tobacco litigation for years to come. Rybak and Phelps use compelling "people" stories to animate nearly every aspect of the trial. Some are obvious. The plaintiffs--Attorney General Skip Humphrey, and Andy Czajkowski, CEO of Blue Cross and Blue Shield of Minnesota--come off as symbols of political courage and tenacity as they proceed with the case despite overwhelming criticism within their respective fields. Their attorney, Minneapolis attorney Mike Ciresi, whose flamboyance and strategic brilliance have been well-documented, exceeded all expectations as he and his team methodically deconstructed Big Tobacco, once thought to be legally impenetrable. Some are less obvious. Big Tobacco emerges as surprisingly sympathetic when its legal team is confronted with the mystifying inhospitality of Judge Kenneth Fitzpatrick. The jurors, however, receive the book's most compassionate treatment. They forfeited four months of their lives, sometimes at great hardship, and never got the chance to deliberate and bring the trial to a conclusion. Smoked offers all of this and more in a surprising backstage drama. Readers will follow its twists and turns to the last page.
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This twenty-ninth report of the Surgeon General documents the serious and deadly health effects of involuntary exposure to tobacco smoke. Secondhand smoke is a major cause of disease, including lung cancer and coronary heart disease, in healthy nonsmokers.
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Charles Abell takes a journey into the past. This Dean of Southern Maryland College, who debuted in the novel, Cuckold Creek, becomes immersed in a family mystery after he listens to an oral history tape recorded by his mother before her death. As though she is speaking from the grave, his mother's words haunt him, launching him on an investigation of an incident in his family's past. The family mystery, revealed in a painting, sends Charles on a search for truth about life at Elysium, the family farm overlooking the historic Port Tobacco Valley. The story revolves around a lynching in 1896, planned at a baseball game and carried out by upstanding members of the community. While he is caught in an undertow of problems at the institution he has helped to build, Charles is brought to the brink of personal and professional failure when Southern Maryland College faces devastating financial loss. It could lose its accreditation and be forced to close; Charles is helpless to stop it until a postcard arrives in the mail with a cryptic instruction that alters the course of his life.
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The health and economic costs of tobacco use in military and veteran populations are high. In 2007, the Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) and the Department of Defense (DoD) requested that the Institute of Medicine (IOM) make recommendations on how to reduce tobacco initiation and encourage cessation in both military and veteran populations. In its 2009 report, Combating Tobacco in Military and Veteran Populations, the authoring committee concludes that to prevent tobacco initiation and encourage cessation, both DoD and VA should implement comprehensive tobacco-control programs.
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This is an EXACT reproduction of a book published before 1923. This IS NOT an OCR'd book with strange characters, introduced typographical errors, and jumbled words. This book may have occasional imperfections such as missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. that were either part of the original artifact, or were introduced by the scanning process. We believe this work is culturally important, and despite the imperfections, have elected to bring it back into print as part of our continuing commitment to the preservation of printed works worldwide. We appreciate your understanding of the imperfections in the preservation process, and hope you enjoy this valuable book.
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This work aims to offer a critical examination of the literature on "policy networks" and on "policy communities" and to show a model for understanding the relationship between industry and government. It then uses the model to demonstrate "issue network" and "producer network" effectiveness.
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