Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the

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

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.
Country USA
Manufacturer University of California Press
Binding Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate 2012-02-28
Format Kindle eBook

Country	USA
Manufacturer	University of California Press
Binding	Kindle Edition
ReleaseDate	2012-02-28
Format	Kindle eBook

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