Business, Politics, and Cigarettes

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The American cigarette industry is again facing enormous pressure from various groups whose goal is a smoke free society. What differentiates this present wave from the previous two waves of regulation faced by the cigarette industry is the severity with which these measures are applied by the state and local government who are enacting anti-smoking laws and regulations and increased excise taxes. Cigarette taxes are a lucrative revenue for the states, which they must ultimately trade-off with their stated goals of deterring smoking. Frequently, in spite of the needs of public health, states find themselves competing with one another for these excise tax revenues and cigarette sales, making them the primary point of challenge for the cigarette industry.

Richard A. McGowan is an Associate Professor at Boston College's Carroll School of Management and a Research Fellow at Harvard Medical School, where he has worked with Massachusetts state legislators formulating public policies affecting the sin industries. His previous books for the Greenwood Publishing Group include State Lotteries and Legalized Gambling: Painless Revenue or Painful Mirage (Quorum 1994) and (with John F. Mahon) Industry as a Player in the Political and Social Arena: Defining the Competitive Environment (Quorum 1996). He is also the author of Government and the Transformation of the Gaming Industry (2001).