Golden holocaust

Description:

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.

subjects: Health aspects,  Psychology,  Tobacco industry,  History,  Economics,  Persuasive Communication,  Adverse effects,  Psychological aspects,  Smoking,  Tobacco use,  Government Regulation,  History, 20th Century,  Gesundheitsschädlicher Stoff,  Zigarettenindustrie,  Tabakindustrie,  Tobacco manufacture and trade

Places: United States