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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Brandt, Allan M.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tobacco industry--United States--History--20th century.

Tobacco industry.

Smoking--United States--History--20th century.

Smoking.

Smoking--Health aspects.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (641 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Basic Books, c2007.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The widely acclaimed, award-winning history of the cigarette.

Contents:

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

Note on Sources 579Acknowledgments 583; Index 585

Notes:

leisurereading.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-578) and index.

ISBN:

0-7867-2190-1

0-7867-2753-5

OCLC:

793166654