When a government agency has been captured by an industry that it is meant to regulate, the agency makes decisions based on what is best for that industrys profits, rather than what serves the public or the country as a whole
It sits in this weird, unique place
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We are talking about scientifically proven interventions such as monitoring tobacco use and prevention policies, protecting people from tobacco smoke by creating smoke free environments, offering help to quit, warning users and non-users about the dangers of tobacco via packaging and labelling of tobacco products and conducting anti-tobacco national mass media campaigns, enforcing bans on advertisements, sponsorship and promotion, and raising taxes on tobacco
How oligopolists react to the price change by one firm can be best understood with the downward-sloping Kinked demand curve