Golden holocaust origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition / Robert N. Proctor.

Contents Machine generated contents note: pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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 -- pt. 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.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
Access restrictionAvailable only to authorized users.
Technical detailsMode of access: World Wide Web
Genre/formElectronic books.
LCCN 2011003825
ISBN9780520270169 (cloth : alk. paper)
ISBN0520270169 (cloth : alk. paper)