Golden holocaust : origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition / Robert N. Proctor.
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 d...
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| Format: | Ebook |
| Language: | English |
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Berkeley :
University of California Press,
©2011.
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| Series: | ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series)
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| Online Access: | Click here to view this book |
| Summary: | 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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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (x, 737 pages, 24 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations) |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 0520950437 9780520950436 |