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Author Brandt, Allan M.

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

Imprint New York : Basic Books, c2007.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description vii, 600 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2009. Includes both TIFF files and keyword searchable text. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book]) Mode of access: Intranet.
Subject Tobacco industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Smoking -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Smoking -- Health aspects.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. URL: https://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 9780465070473
0465070477
Standard No. 2027/heb06648 hdl

 
    
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