f Lowi, in our text Warren suggests a few ways for improvement within administrative law agencies. The main suggestion beginning with an early attachment of standards and guidelines to the rule-making process, along with improved oversight. Along with this Warren recommends improved oversight and rigorous record keeping.So if smoking is so inherently bad why do people keep doing it? Is it simply that nobody has told them it was bad for them? That is highly doubtful. Although, David Burton of Kansas City, KS would probably argue the subject with you. Burton started smoking in 1950 when he was a teen and quit in 1993. Burton however had to have his legs amputated because of a circulatory disease. Burton claims that smoking brought upon his disease. Burton’s attorney, Kenneth B. McClain has argued Burton was “unaware that at the end of the road, eh could lose his legs.” Rather McClain says, “In 1954, he’s 19 yrs old, he has no idea what (smoking) has in store for him. The tobacco companies do (Freed).” Consequently on February 22nd, Burton was awarded nearly $200,000 in compensatory damages. This prompted Daniel W. Donahue, the senior vice president for Reynolds Tobacco to state, “The Company has no obligation to warn about risks that are commonly understood, and there is certainly no obligation to warn about risks that are not yet known (Hollingsworth).” Obviously, Burton’s case was previous to intervention of administrative law, and the constraints placed upon tobacco. Dennis Leary, offers some insight into why people smoke on his first CD entitled No Cure For Cancer. He says the warning don’t work, “like suddenly smokers everywhere are going to be like, ya I got some cigarettes here, holy *censored*, these things are bad for you, I thought they had vitamin C in them and stuff.” Continuing Leary says, you could even have a pack of cigarettes that w...
