Golden Holocaust
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Golden Holocaust

  1. 752 pages
  2. English
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Golden Holocaust

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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.

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Publisher
University of California Press
Year
2012
ISBN
9780520950436
Edition
1
Topic
Medicine
Subtopic
Medical Theory, Practice & Reference

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Contents
  3. List of Illustrations
  4. Prologue
  5. Introduction: Who Knew What and When?
  6. PART ONE. THE TRIUMPH OF THE CIGARETTE
  7. PART TWO. DISCOVERING THE CANCER HAZARD
  8. PART THREE. CONSPIRACY ON A GRAND SCALE
  9. PART FOUR. RADIANT FILTH AND REDEMPTION
  10. Notes
  11. Selected Bibliography
  12. Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon
  13. Timeline of Global Tobacco Mergers and Acquisitions
  14. Timeline of Tobacco Industry Diversification into Candy, Food, Alcohol, and Other Products
  15. Acknowledgments
  16. Index