Screen LibraryGolden holocaust：origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition
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University of California Press,
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| Publisher Address: | Berkeley |
| Publication Dates: | c2011. |
| Literature type: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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| Carrier Form: | x, 737 p., [24] p. of plates: ill. ; 24 cm. |
| ISBN: |
9780520270169 (cloth : alk. paper) 0520270169 (cloth : alk. paper) |
| Index Number: | F471 |
| CLC: | F471.268-09 |
| Call Number: | F471.268-09/P964 |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. 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. |