Damned Tobacco
Harm Reduction and Prohibitionism in the Anti-Smoking Movement
Innovation and creativity have put the software maker on top. Now bureaucrats and lawyers want to cash in.
Fans of activist litigation discover the other guy can sue too.
California's term limits are under a legal cloud in the federal courts. But what, if anything, has Prop. 140 changed in Sacramento?
Delivered at the Drug Policy Foundation's 11th International Conference on Drug Policy Reform, October 17, 1997.
The tobacco companies have renounced the principles that made it possible to defend them.
Saving endangered wildlife once meant trampled crops and violent death to the villagers of Southern Africa. Now community-based capitalism is turning once-fearsome pests into valuable sources of wealth.
As the proposed tobacco settlement heads to Congress, the anti-smoking movement is divided over whether it's a good deal after all. A guide to the players, the alliances they've established, and who hopes to get what.
New air pollution regulations based on questionable science and creative economic analysis could cost billions and change the way Americans mow their lawns, heat their homes, clean their clothes, and barbecue their burgers. Can Congress stop this regulatory power grab?
Self-appointed Web watchers are worried that virtual smoking and drinking might lead to the real thing.