The Competitive Enterprise Institute Daily Update

Issues in the News

1. LEGAL

Payments from tobacco companies to states are found to have been diverted away from smoking-related programs.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Director of Communications Christine Hall on the unholy alliance between tobacco companies and state governments.

2. HEALTH

A new study examines the effect an avian flu pandemic would have on U.S. health professionals.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Dr. Henry I. Miller examines some hard truths about bird flu. 

3. TRADE

Global demand for sugar raises prices around the globe.

CEI Expert Available to Comment: Adjunct Fellow Fran Smith on the need to reform the sugar subsidy system in the United States.

FOR MORE INFORMATION

To contact a CEI expert for comment or interviews, please call the CEI communications department at 202-331-2273 or email to [email protected].