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By W. Kip Viscusi. 263 pp. Chicago, University of Chicago Press, 2002. $27.50. ISBN 0-226-85747-6.

Viscusi may be the most prominent academic critic of current public health approaches to smoking, often serving as an expert witness for cigarette companies. He is perhaps best known for his conclusion that smokers provide governments with net economic benefits because they pay more in taxes than do nonsmokers and, thanks to their smoking-shortened lives, consume fewer government benefits.

Viscusi's new book, Smoke-Filled Rooms, presents itself as a critical analysis of the states' settlements of their lawsuits against the cigarette companies. This framework serves Viscusi well, because it supports the narrow, dollars-and-cents approach he favors and excludes important public health . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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