Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
- ISBN-10
- 0520950437
- ISBN-13
- 9780520950436
- Category
- Medical
- Pages
- 752
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012-02-28
- Publisher
- Univ of California Press
- Author
- Robert N. Proctor
Description
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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