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Author Brandt, Allan M.

Title The cigarette century : the rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America / Allan M. Brandt.

Publication Info. New York : Basic Books, [2007]
©2007
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 Moore Stacks  HD9130.8.U5 B72 2007    DUE 05-10-24 12:00AM  ---
Description vii, 600 pages, 32 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 25 cm
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 507-578) and index.
Contents Introduction: the Camel Man and me -- Culture -- Pro bono publico -- Tobacco as much as bullets -- Engineering consent -- Science -- More doctors smoke Camels -- The causal conundrum -- Constructing controversy -- Politics -- The surgeon general has determined -- Congress : the best filter yet -- Your cigarette is killing me -- Law -- Nicotine is the product -- Mr. Butts goes to Washington -- The trials of big tobacco -- Globalization -- Exporting an epidemic -- Epilogue: the crime of the century -- References -- Note on sources -- Acknowledgements -- Index.
Subject Tobacco industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Tobacco industry.
United States.
History.
Chronological Term 20th century
Subject Smoking -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Smoking.
Smoking -- Health aspects.
Smoking -- Health aspects.
ISBN 9780465070473
0465070477

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