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Author Kluger, Richard.

Title Ashes to ashes : America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris / Richard Kluger.

Imprint New York, N.Y. : Alfred A. Knopf : Distributed by Random House, c1996.

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 Axe Special Collections Hagman  394.14 K714a    ---  Lib Use Only
Edition 1st ed.
Description xix, 807 p. ; 25 cm.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. [768]-772) and index.
Contents Adoring the devil's breath -- The earth with a fence around it -- It takes the hair right off your bean -- The golden age of malarkey -- "Shall we just have a cigarette on it?" -- The filter tip and other placebos -- The anguish of the Russian count -- Grand inquisitors -- Marlboro mirage -- Three-ton dog on the prowl -- Stroking the sow's ear -- Let there be light -- Breeding a one-fanged rattler -- The heights of arrogance -- The calling of Philip Morris -- Of dragonslayers and pond scum -- Chow lines -- Melancholy Rose -- Smooth characters -- Blowing smoke.
Subject Smoking -- United States -- History.
Tobacco use -- United States -- History.
Cigarette industry -- United States -- History.
Tobacco industry -- United States -- History.
ISBN 0394570766

 
    
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