MCPHS Cigarettes American History Questions only takes 30min to do.
1.Norma Broin was a
lawyer
whistleblower
flight attendant
2.According to this chapter, which tactic has been more effective against tobacco companies?
Legislation and policies.
Lawsuits against their actions.
Both have been effective.
3.Which type of lawsuits have been more successful against tobacco companies?
Lawsuits that give money to individual smokers.
Lawsuits that give money to nonsmokers affected by secondhand smoke.
Both are equally successful.
4.Which type of lawsuits have been more effective against tobacco companies?
Lawsuits that give money to states because of money paid to care for victims of lung cancer and other smoking-related diseases.
Lawsuits that give money to individual smokers.
Both are successful.
5.The Mississippi attorney general who sued the tobacco companies was
Richard Scruggs
Michael Moore
David Kessler
6.The lawyer who financed the Mississippi state lawsuit against the tobacco companies
received an hourly rate of pay for his firm from the state.
did the work pro bono, never receiving payment.
agreed to receive payment only if the suit was won or settled.
7.Which settlement agreement actually went through and is being implemented?
The Global Settlement Agreement
The McCain bill
The Master Settlement Agreement
8.Who of the following was NOT a tobacco executive?
Bennett LeBow
Geoffrey Bible
John McCain
9.Which tobacco company reached a settlement in the state cases BEFORE the other companies?
Brown and Williamson
Liggett and Myers
Philip Morris
RJ Reynolds
10.The 1997 Global Settlement agreement called for the tobacco companies to pay far more money to the states than the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement.
True
False
11.The McCain bill did which of the following?
Required tobacco companies to pay more money than either of the settlements.
Required tobacco companies to pay less money than either of the ettlements.
REquired tobacco companies to pay more money than the Master Settlement Agreement but less money than the Global Settlement.
12.In what ways was the Master Settlement Agreement harder on the tobacco companies than the Global Settlement?
more possibilities of future lawsuits.
more regulatory limits on advertising and promotion to youth.
federal regulation by the FDA
13.Part of the settlement agreement that went through was that the FDA started to regulate tobacco.
True
False
14.By the year 2000, tobacco company spokespeople
continued to say that it was unknown whether smoking was harmful or addictive.
publicly admitted that smoking was harmful, but not that it was addictive.
publicly admitted that smoking was harmful and addictive.
15.Although the tobacco companies have to pay the states billions of dollars because of the Settlement, they haven’t suffered much financially.
True
False
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