An Empirical Study Of Tobacco Punitive Damages

Cigarettes are the deadliest product marketed in world history.Tobacco kills up to half of its users who do not quit, including an estimated 1.3 million non-smokers who are exposed to second-hand smoke.Cigarette smoking accounts for more than seven million deaths per year worldwide.Cigarette smoking is the leading avoidable cause of disease, disability, and death in the United States, with sixteen million Americans suffering from a smoking-related disease.Tobacco companies have yet to pay even a small fraction of the direct economic costs of addicting millions of children to cigarettes.To date, the tobacco industry has thwarted all attempts by