03342nam 2200649Ia 450 991046274240332120200520144314.01-280-49211-297866135873430-520-95043-710.1525/9780520950436(CKB)2670000000168026(EBL)868340(OCoLC)784884555(SSID)ssj0000635972(PQKBManifestationID)11403909(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000635972(PQKBWorkID)10659488(PQKB)10386319(MiAaPQ)EBC868340(DE-B1597)520544(DE-B1597)9780520950436(Au-PeEL)EBL868340(CaPaEBR)ebr10553343(CaONFJC)MIL358734(EXLCZ)99267000000016802620110126d2011 ub 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGolden holocaust[electronic resource] origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition /Robert N. ProctorBerkeley University of California Pressc20111 online resource (775 p.)Description based upon print version of record.0-520-27016-9 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 -- IndexThe 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.Tobacco industryUnited StatesHistoryTobacco useHealth aspectsSmokingPsychological aspectsElectronic books.Tobacco industryHistory.Tobacco useHealth aspects.SmokingPsychological aspects.362.29/60973QR 528rvkProctor Robert1954-1055895MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910462742403321Golden holocaust2489684UNINA