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

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

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Robert N. Proctor (Author)  

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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. 40 b-w photographs
Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and author of Cancer Wars, Racial Hygiene, and The Nazi War on Cancer He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
  • Contributor: Robert N. Proctor
  • Imprint: University of California Press
  • ISBN13: 9780520270169
  • Number of Pages: 774
  • Packaged Dimensions: 152x229x51mm
  • Packaged Weight: 1179
  • Format: Hardback
  • Publisher: University of California Press
  • Release Date: 2012-02-07
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Biography: Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and author of Cancer Wars, Racial Hygiene, and The Nazi War on Cancer He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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