Year: 2009
Type: article
Abstract: Tobacco is a product-and public health problemunlike any other.No other legal consumable product is nearly as addictive or as deadly as the cigarette, which kills approximately 440,000 Americans every year. 1 Moreover, tobacco products have exerted an unparalleled influence over American society and culture.As Allan Brandt wrote in The Cigarette Century, cigarettes have "deeply penetrated American culture," leaving "few, if any, central aspects of American society that are truly smoke-free." 2 These and other characteristics make tobacco use a highly unusual public health issue, and therefore courts have often distorted precedents and shaped their decisions to accommodate the unique exigencies of tobacco-related cases.In turn, these decisions have significantly reshaped public health law doctrine, affecting a wide variety of health-related concerns outside the tobacco context.
Source: bepress Legal Repository
Author: Micah L. Berman
Institution: Brooklyn Law School
Language: English
Subfield: Physiology
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2259160653