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Author Brandt, Allan M.

Title The cigarette century : 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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Location Call No. OPAC Message Status
 Axe 3rd Floor Stacks  338.476797 B734c 2007    ---  Available
 Axe Special Collections Whitehead  338.476797 B734c 2007 c.2  ---  Lib Use Only
Description vii, 600 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm.
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 -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
Subject Tobacco Industry -- ethics -- United States.
Tobacco Industry -- history -- United States.
History, 20th Century -- United States.
Smoking -- adverse effects -- United States.
Smoking -- history -- United States.
Tobacco industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Smoking -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Smoking -- Health aspects.
ISBN 0465070477
9780465070473
Standard No. NLM 101304910
YDXCP 2150762
NLGGC 304125024
AU@ 000041590044
NZ1 11009550
IG# 9780465070473

 
    
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