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Golden holocaust :

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(cloth : alk. paper)

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0520270169

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9780520270169

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Golden holocaust :

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[Book]

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origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition /

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Robert N. Proctor

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Berkeley :

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University of California Press,

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c2011

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x, 737 p., [24] p. of plates :

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ill. ;

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24 cm

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leisure reading

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Includes bibliographical references and index

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Part One. THE TRIUMPH OF THE CIGARETTE -- 1. The Flue-Curing Revolution -- 2. Matches and Mechanization -- 3. War Likes Tobacco, Tobacco Likes War -- 4. Taxation : The Second Addiction -- 5. Marketing Genius Unleashed -- 6. Sponsoring Sports to Sell Smoke -- 7. Parties, the Arts, and Extreme Expeditions -- 8. Clouding the Web : Tobacco 2.0 -- Part Two. DISCOVERING THE CANCER HAZARD -- 9. Early Experimental Carcinogenesis -- 10. Roffo's Foray and the Nazi Response -- 11. "Sold American": Tobacco-Friendly Research at the Medical College of Virginia -- 12. A Most Feared Document : Claude E. Teague's 1953 "Survey of Cancer Research" -- 13. "Silent Collaborators" : Clandestine Cancer Research Financed by Tobacco via the Damon Runyon Fund -- 14. Ecusta's Experiments -- 15.Consensus, Hubris, and Duplicity -- Part Three. CONSPIRACY ON A GRAND SCALE -- 16. The Council for Tobacco Research : Distraction Research, Decoy Research, Filibuster Research -- 17. Agnotology in Action -- 18. Measuring Ignorance : The Impact of Industry Disinformation on Popular Knowledge of Tobacco Hazards -- 19. Filter Flimflam -- 20. The Grand Fraud of Ventilation -- 21. Crack Nicotine : Freebasing to Augment a Cigarette's "Kick" -- 22. The "Light Cigarette" Scam -- 23. Penetrating the Universities -- 24. Historians Join the Conspiracy -- Part Four. RADIANT FILTH AND REDEMPTION -- 25. What's Actually in Your Cigarette? -- 26. Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke : "Three Mile Marlboro" and the Sleeping Giant -- 27. The Odd Business of Butts -- and the Global Warming Wild Card -- 28. "Safer" Cigarettes? -- 29. Globalizing Death -- 30. What Must Be Done

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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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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

Smoking-- Psychological aspects

Tobacco industry-- United States-- History

Tobacco use-- Health aspects

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Proctor, Robert,1954-

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20120802115202.0

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