Up in smoke: from legislation to litigation in tobacco politics

A new way of regulating tobacco

The ordinary politics of legislation

Ordinary torts : litigation before it was substituted for legislation

The drive for FDA regulation

The new wave of litigation

The changed context of policymaking

The 1997 settlement dies in Congress

The FDA regulations die in court

The Master Settlement Agreement of 1998

The aftermath of the MSA

After litigation a return to legislation

Ordinary politics versus adversarial legalism.