Summary: If Your Favorite Policy Alternative

The book talks about the twenty dollar bill test, saying that if your favorite policy alternative is such a great idea, how come it is not happening already? The reason my policy alternative is not already a policy is because the government does not want to admit to what they are doing with the tobacco companies. They do not want others to know about how much they let the tobacco companies slide, and if this new policy were to be put into place they would have to say one way or another how they turn their back to what the tobacco companies are doing. The tobacco control act has benefits such as banning smoking in restaurants and campus’s. The downfall is that nothing with the policy mentions minors, where if the alternative policy were put
into place it would benefit minors. “Every year, tobacco companies spend billions of dollars on advertising and promotion, and tobacco use costs the United States billions of dollars in medical expenses and lost productivity (CDCP, 2015).