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Author Brandt, Allan M.

Title The Cigarette Century : the Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
Published New York : Basic Books, 2009

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Description 1 online resource (641 pages)
Contents Introduction: The Camel Man and Me 1; I Culture; 1 Pro Bono Publico 19; 2 Tobacco as Much as Bullets 45; 3 Engineering Consent 69; II Science; 4 More Doctors Smoke Camels 105; 5 The Causal Conundrum 131; 6 Constructing Controversy 159; III Politics; 7 The Surgeon General Has Determined 211; 8 Congress: The Best Filter Yet 241; 9 Your Cigarette Is Killing Me 279; IV Law; 10 Nicotine Is the Product 319; 11 Mr. Butts Goes to Washington 357; 12 The Trials of Big Tobacco 401; V Globalization; 13 Exporting an Epidemic 449; Epilogue: The Crime of the Century 493; References 507
Summary The widely acclaimed, award-winning history of the cigarette
Notes English
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Subject Tobacco industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Smoking -- United States -- History -- 20th century
Smoking -- Health aspects
Smoking
Smoking -- Health aspects
Tobacco industry
United States
Genre/Form History
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780786721900
0786721901
9780465070480
0465070485
0786727535
9780786727537