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Golden Holocaust Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
by [Proctor, Robert N.]
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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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- University of California Brand
- Feb 28, 2012 Pub Date:
- 9780520270169 ISBN-13:
- 0520270169 ISBN-10:
- 774.0 pages Hardcover
- English Language
- 9 in * 2 in * 6 in Dimensions:
- 3 lb Weight:
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