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A 7 page paper which identifies the players, the issues, the sides advocated by each of the players, the court’s decision and a consideration of how the deal became more controlled by the press than by the participating organizations. Bibliography lists 6 sources.
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prizes, and trips. However, more often than not, the winners turned out to be losers because if they selected the wrong door, they received booby prizes, and the joke
was on them. This, unfortunately, resembles what has become known as the Tobacco Deal of 1997, which through a series of renegotiations, was finally agreed upon by all parties
in the fall of 1998. But like the old game show, it was a matter of opinion as to the winning and losing sides of this controversial compromise.
The players are not necessarily as easily identified as one might think. Theoretically, on one side, were the major tobacco manufacturers, that are often collectively known as the "Big
Four," and their counsel (Worth 8). They include Philip Morris USA Inc., R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company, Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation, and Lorillard Tobacco Company. On the other
side are "the people, or the state," those American consumers and inhalers of secondhand smoke whose health have been adversely affected by tobacco products. These citizens are represented by
elected politicians, attorneys, and public health care policy activist organizations. The issues that defined the resulting tobacco proposal, renegotiation, and accepted deal are as follows. By
1997, published reports alleged that the use of tobacco kills approximately 440,000 Americans each year, and generates some $157 billion health-related costs annually (Givel and Glantz 218). Furthermore, according
to the Centers for Disease Control, the incidence of teenage smoking had risen an astonishing 73 percent between the years of 1988 and 1996 (Worth 8). There were also
studies released by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency charging that secondhand smoke was even more damaging to nonsmokers than smoking was. This was, however, according to author W. Kip
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