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Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

By Robert N. Proctor

Book information

Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2012
ISBN
0520270169, 9780520270169
Language
english
Format
EPUB
Filesize
5 MB (5617096 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
752\0
Time added
2012-06-19 10:37:41

Description

The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor tells heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy: a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes.

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