The tobacco challenge : legal policy and consumer protection / Geraint Howells.

Includes index.

Tobacco : a challenge to the law -- Tobacco litigation -- Product liability in the US : from asbestos to riches? -- Product liability beyond the US -- Regulatory responses to tobacco and legal challenges -- Regulating tobacco -- The future challenges for tobacco control.

Addressing three central questions of legal policy, this is an interesting and comprehensive analysis of the need to control and regulate tobacco consumption. The core issues of the book are litigation vs. regulation with a comparative analysis of the US and European approaches; the challenge to regulate tobacco as a lawful product within constitutional limits to promote the reduction of risks to health and the extent to which consumers should be entrusted with information to make their own informed choices. Suggesting dialogue and transparency in policy development, this book covers advertising, psychology, ethics, economics and health in addition to the central debate about the litigation and regulation of tobacco and the role of consumer protection law and private law.

Includes bibliographical references and index.