The cigarette papers / / Stanton A. Glantz ... [et al.] [[electronic resource]]

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910495962303321
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: Berkeley, : University of California Press, c1996
• ISBN: 0-520-92099-6; 0-585-06878-X
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (xix, 539 p. ) : ill.
• Altri autori (Persone): GlantzStanton A; BeroLisa; HanauerPeter; SladeJohn; BarnesDeborah E
• Disciplina: 362.29/6
• Soggetti: Smoking - Health aspects; Tobacco industry - United States; Tobacco use - Health aspects; Industry; Nicotine - adverse effects; Smoking; Cigarettes; Habits; Technology, Industry, and Agriculture; Pyridines; Solanaceae; Solanaceous Alkaloids; Technology; Angiosperms; Behavior; Alkaloids; Heterocyclic Compounds, 1-Ring; Heterocyclic Compounds; Embryophyta; Behavior and Behavior Mechanisms; Psychology; Streptophyta; Viridiplantae; Plants; Eukaryota; Nicotine; Business & Economics; Industries; United States
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Note generali: "Foreword by C. Everett Koop, former Surgeon General."
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
• Nota di contenuto: Looking through a keyhole at the tobacco industry -- Smoking and disease: the tobacco industry's earliest responses -- Addiction and cigarettes as nicotine delivery devices -- The search for a "safe" cigarette -- Public relations in the "safe" cigarette era -- Agricultural chemicals and cigarette additives -- Legal concerns facing the industry -- Lawyer management of scientific research -- Stonewalling : politics and public relations -- Environmental tobacco smoke and the nonsmokers' rights movement -- Where do we go from here?
• Sommario/riassunto: Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes-these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it all: revelations that tobacco companies had long known the grave dangers of smoking, and did nothing about it.In May 1994 a box containing 4,000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents arrived at the office of Professor Stanton Glantz at the University of California, San Francisco. The anonymous source of these "cigarette papers" was identified only as "Mr. Butts." These documents provide a shocking inside account of the activities of one tobacco company, Brown & Williamson, over more than thirty years. Quoting extensively from the documents themselves and analyzing what they reveal, The Cigarette Papers shows what the tobacco companies have known and galvanizes us to take action.