Richard A. Mcgowan

Business, Politics, and Cigarettes

Multiple Levels, Multiple Agendas

• Gebundenes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

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 find themselves competing with one another for these excise tax revenues and cigarette sales, making them the primary point of challenge for the cigarette industry.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Praeger
• Seitenzahl: 180
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. Oktober 1995
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 235mm x 157mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 422g
• ISBN-13: 9780899309644
• ISBN-10: 089930964X
• Artikelnr.: 22308898

Autorenporträt

Richard A. McGowan is an Associate Professor at Boston College's Carroll School of Management and a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he has worked with Massachusetts state legislators formulating public policies affecting the sin industries. His previous books for the Greenwood Publishing Group include State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage (Quorum 1994) and (with John F. Mahon) Industry as a Player in the Political and Social Arena: Defining the Competitive Environment (Quorum 1996). He is also the author of Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry (2001).

Inhaltsangabe

Preface The Cigarette Industry and Government An Introduction to the
Cigarette-Government Controversy The History of Government Regulation of
the Cigarette Industry: A Three Wave Model A Convergence Model for Business
and Public Policy Cigarette Sales, Cigarette Prices, and State Excise Tax
Policy Evaluating the Effects of Second Wave Policies on Cigarette Sales
The Cigarette Excise Tax: The Public Policy Measure of the Third Wave
Regulation The State and Cigarette Excise Taxes: Dependency, Revenue, and
Competition The Future of the Cigarette Industry New Horizons for the
Cigarette Industry: The Privatization of the Worldwide Cigarette Industry
Conclusions, Analysis, and Implications Bibliography Index