Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

by Proctor, Robert N.
ISBN: 9780520270169
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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.
  • Format: Hardcover
  • Author: Proctor, Robert N.
  • ISBN: 9780520270169
  • Condition: Used
  • Dimensions: 9.00 x 2.00
  • Number Of Pages: 774
  • Publication Year: 2012