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Author:   Robert N. Proctor
Publisher:   University of California Press
Imprint:   University of California Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.20cm , Height: 5.10cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   1.179kg
ISBN:  

9780520270169

ISBN 10:   0520270169
Pages:   774
Publication Date:   28 February 2012
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  College/higher education ,  Professional & Vocational ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of Illustrations Prologue Introduction: Who Knew What and When? PART ONE. The Triumph of the Cigarette 1. The Flue-Curing Revolution 2. Matches and Mechanization 3. War Likes Tobacco, Tobacco Likes War 4. Taxation:The Second Addiction 5. Marketing Genius Unleashed 6. Sponsoring Sports to Sell Smoke 7. Parties, the Arts, and Extreme Expeditions 8. Clouding the Web: Tobacco 2.0 PART TWO. Discovering the Cancer Hazard 9. Early Experimental Carcinogenesis 10. Roffo's Foray and the Nazi Response 11. Sold American : Tobacco-Friendly Research at the Medical College of Virginia 12. A Most Feared Document: Claude E. Teague's 1953 Survey of Cancer Research 13. Silent Collaborators : Clandestine Cancer Research Financed by Tobacco via the Damon Runyon Fund 14. Ecusta's Experiments 15. Consensus, Hubris, and Duplicity PART THREE. Conspiracy on a Grand Scale 16. The Council for tobacco Research: Distraction Research, Decoy Research, Filibuster Research 17. Agnotology in Action 18. Measuring Ignorance: The Impact of Industry Disinformation on Popular Knowledge of Tobacco Hazards 19. Filter Flimflam 20. The Grand Fraud of Ventilation 21. Crack Nicotine: Freebasing to Augment a Cigarette's Kick 22. The Light Cigarette Scam 23. Penetrating the Universities 24. Historians Join the Conspiracy PART FOUR. Radiant Filth and Redemption 25. What's Actually in your Cigarette? 26. Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke: Three Mile Marlboro and the Sleeping Giant 27. The Odd Business of Butts-and the Global Warming Wild Card 28. Safer Cigarettes? 29. Globalizing Death 30. What Must Be Done Notes Selected Bibliography Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon Timeline of Global Tobacco Mergers and Acquisitions Timeline of Tobacco Industry Diversification into Candy, Food, Alcohol, and Other Products Acknowledgments Index

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Draws on previously confidential industry documents and Proctor's own experience as the first historian to testify in court about [industry] lies. What lies? How deep into the pleural linings did they go? All the way. --Harper's Magazine Lays out in head-shaking detail how a handful of companies painstakingly designed, produced, and mass-marketed the most lethal product on the planet. --Mother Jones [A] monumental and sobering indictment. --Nature Proctor documents a breadth and depth of the industry's duplicitous actions that is astounding. --Science (Aaas) A nearly 800-page book that begins as the Bible of the twentieth-century cigarette industry only to end as its millennial counterblaste. --Harper's

For his monumental and sobering indictment, science historian Robert Proctor dug through piles of recently released industry documentation to uncover the activities that lured many scientists into its mill of denial. A tale of giant profits, decades of secrecy over the links with cancer, useless filters and more. --Nature

[A] monumental and sobering indictment. --Nature

[A] monumental and sobering indictment. --Nature Engaging, inexhaustible with information, and driven. --Chronicle of Higher Education Proctor challenges his readers to conceptualize a much happier and healthier world in which the manufacture and sale of cigarettes is prohibited. --The Huffington Post A landmark study in medicine and the history of science, and of an industry [Proctor] describes as 'evil.' --Toronto Globe & Mail A passionate work and not for the faint of heart. --American Jrnl of Epidemiology

Author Information

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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