Golden holocaust : origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition / / Robert N. Proctor
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| Autore: |
Proctor Robert <1954->
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| Titolo: |
Golden holocaust : origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition / / Robert N. Proctor
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| Pubblicazione: | Berkeley, : University of California Press, c2011 |
| Edizione: | 1st ed. |
| Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (775 p.) |
| Disciplina: | 362.29/60973 |
| Soggetto topico: | Tobacco industry - United States - History |
| Tobacco use - Health aspects | |
| Smoking - Psychological aspects | |
| Classificazione: | QR 528 |
| 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. |
| Titolo autorizzato: | Golden holocaust |
| ISBN: | 1-280-49211-2 |
| 9786613587343 | |
| 0-520-95043-7 | |
| Formato: | Materiale a stampa  |
| Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
| Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
| Record Nr.: | 9910811058703321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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Serie:
ACLS Fellows' Publications.