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Golden holocaust

Proctor, Robert N

2012,2011

Overview

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.

• Publisher: University of California Press
• Subject: Addiction / adverse effects / america and tobacco / cigarette addiction / cigarettes and death / dangers of smoking / drug addiction / drug research literature / drugs and health / economics / Government Regulation / Health aspects / Health Sciences / History / history of cigarettes / history of tobacco / History, 20th Century / Holocaust / how to quit smoking / MEDICAL / MEDICAL / General / MEDICAL / History / medical ethics / medical lit / medicine / Persuasive Communication / Psychological aspects / psychology / Public health / public health history / Smoking / Smoking -- Psychological aspects / smoking and cancer / smoking kills / smoking recovery / Tobacco / tobacco addiction / tobacco and cancer / tobacco and death / tobacco business / Tobacco industry / Tobacco Industry - economics - United States / Tobacco industry -- United States -- History / tobacco industry lies / tobacco manufacturers / tobacco scandal / Tobacco use / Tobacco use -- Health aspects / U.S.A / United States
• ISBN: 0520270169, 9780520270169, 0520950437, 9780520950436