An evaluation of the FDA’s analysis of the costs and benefits of the graphic warning label regulation

Tobacco Control

Volumn 24, Issue 2, 2015, Pages 112-119

  Chaloupka, Frank J ^a   Warner, Kenneth E ^b   Acemoğlu, Daron ^c   Gruber, Jonathan ^c   Laux, Fritz ^d   Max, Wendy ^e   Newhouse, Joseph ^f   Schelling, Thomas ^g   Sindelar, Jody ^h  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ILLINOIS AT CHICAGO   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^c MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d NORTHEASTERN STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^f HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^h YALE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVERSE EFFECTS; COST BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG LABELING; ECONOMICS; EVALUATION STUDY; FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMAN; LEGISLATION AND JURISPRUDENCE; PACKAGING; PLEASURE; PROCEDURES; SMOKING; STANDARDS; TOBACCO; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; UNITED STATES;

COST-BENEFIT ANALYSIS; DRUG LABELING; GOVERNMENT REGULATION; HUMANS; PLEASURE; PRODUCT LABELING; SMOKING; TOBACCO INDUSTRY; TOBACCO PRODUCTS; UNITED STATES; UNITED STATES FOOD AND DRUG ADMINISTRATION;

EID: 84923138511     PISSN: 09644563     EISSN: 14683318     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/tobaccocontrol-2014-052022     Document Type: Article

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