W. Kip Viscusi, Professor, Harvard Law School (University of Chicago Press, 2002)

One of the nation's top tort scholars and an expert on products liability generally and tobacco litigation specifically, Viscusi gives a scathing account of the 1998 multistate tobacco settlement. Viscusi argues both that the companies themselves made a mistake in settling and that the states did their citizens a disservice, amounting to little more than placing a large excise tax on the poor. Viscusi's approachable yet thorough use of medical studies and statistics is likely to have influence on even the most ardent anti-tobacco reader.