Tobacco Settlement Seen as Opportunity Lost To Curb Cigarette Use

Tobacco settlement seen as opportunity lost to curb cigarette use.

Tobacco settlement dollars are increasingly being used by states to shore up eroding budgets instead of for the purposes they were intended—to offset tobacco-related health care costs and institute tobacco control programs. Congress's investigative body, the General Accounting Office (GAO), reported in March that the 46 states party to the 1998 $206 billion Master Settlement Agreement (MSA) spe...

Measures to control tobacco use: immunity, advertising restrictions, and FDA control as proposed in the failed tobacco settlement.

Malaria: As Seen in the Andamans Penal Settlement

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The Tobacco Settlement, as Refracted through the Economics of Litigation

Controlling Lost Opportunity Costs in Agile Development - The Basic Lost Opportunity Estimation Model for Requirements Scoping

In this paper, we present a model for estimating the final decision point for committing to the development of features that are under analysis for inclusion in the scope of a future release. The Basic Lost Opportunity Estimation Model (BLOEM) is based on studies at a company that uses an agile-inspired software development model. The main objective of BLOEM is to support feature selection in a...