Smoke-Filled Rooms: A postmortem on the tobacco deal by W. Kip Viscusi, University of Chicago Press, £17.50/$27.50 ISBN 0226857476 Reviewed by Kurt Kleiner
SMOKING isn’t as bad for you as most people think. Smokers actually save the healthcare system money, and tobacco companies have been unfairly treated by politicians, juries and the media. So, at any rate, says W. Kip Viscusi in Smoke-Filled Rooms. But how right is he?
Viscusi is an economist at Harvard Law School and a frequent expert witness for the tobacco companies. It’s clear where his sympathies lie, but that doesn’t mean he’s wrong when he…
