Tobacco control strategies: past efficacy and future promise
RL Rabin - Loy. LAL Rev., 2007 - HeinOnline
The period of greatest turbulence in the world of tobacco control appears to have passed.
Roiled by massive disclosures of deceptive practices in internal documents, the major
tobacco producers came to be seen as a rogue industry in the mid-1990s.'By the turn of the
new century, political support, particularly in Congress, that had stayed the hand of any
significant federal regulatory control was nowhere in evidence. Yet, only a few years later, as
legislation that would subject the industry to federal regulatory scrutiny for the first time …
Roiled by massive disclosures of deceptive practices in internal documents, the major
tobacco producers came to be seen as a rogue industry in the mid-1990s.'By the turn of the
new century, political support, particularly in Congress, that had stayed the hand of any
significant federal regulatory control was nowhere in evidence. Yet, only a few years later, as
legislation that would subject the industry to federal regulatory scrutiny for the first time …
