Master Settlement Agreement All Over Again
Once again, a cadre of AGs and tobacco makers have leagued up to decide national policy. They don’t want cigarette brands to have sweet and/or alluring names because, they insist, sweet and/or alluring names target children. The settlement is only between R.J. Reynolds and 39 AGs at present, but we can guess that others will soon climb aboard.
At the present pace, NAAG settlement agreements will soon run everything from international trade bargains to national financial policy to MLB commissioner duties. Why waste time passing legislation through national democratic institutions when parochial litigacrats can decide everything at a whim?
