Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris

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Adoring the devil's breath -- The earth with a fence around it -- It takes the hair right off your bean -- The golden age of malarkey -- "Shall we just have a cigarette on it?" -- The filter tip and other placebos -- The anguish of the Russian count -- Grand inquisitors -- Marlboro mirage -- Three-ton dog on the prowl -- Stroking the sow's ear -- Let there be light -- Breeding a one-fanged rattler -- The heights of arrogance -- The calling of Philip Morris -- Of dragonslayers and pond scum -- Chow lines -- Melancholy Rose -- Smooth characters -- Blowing smoke.;A history of the American tobacco industry, looking at the companies and their leaders who have been able to overcome all doomsayers to continue peddling their product. Adoring the devil's breath -- The earth with a fence around it -- It takes the hair right off your bean -- The golden age of malarkey -- "Shall we just have a cigarette on it?" -- The filter tip and other placebos -- The anguish of the Russian count -- Grand inquisitors -- Marlboro mirage -- Three-ton dog on the prowl -- Stroking the sow's ear -- Let there be light -- Breeding a one-fanged rattler -- The heights of arrogance -- The calling of Philip Morris -- Of dragonslayers and pond scum -- Chow lines -- Melancholy Rose -- Smooth characters -- Blowing smoke.