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Record Nr.

UNINA9910790157203321

Autore

Proctor Robert <1954->

Titolo

Golden holocaust [[electronic resource] ] : origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition / / Robert N. Proctor

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011

ISBN

1-280-49211-2

9786613587343

0-520-95043-7

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (775 p.)

Classificazione

QR 528

Disciplina

362.29/60973

Soggetti

Tobacco industry - United States - History

Tobacco use - Health aspects

Smoking - Psychological aspects

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- Introduction: Who Knew What and When? -- Part One. The Triumph of the Cigarette -- Part Two. Discovering the Cancer Hazard -- Part Three. Conspiracy on a Grand Scale -- Part Four. Radiant Filth and Redemption -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon -- Timeline of Global Tobacco Mergers and Acquisitions (selected) -- Timeline of Tobacco Industry Diversification into Candy, Food, Alcohol, and other Products (selected) -- Acknowledgments -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

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.