Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
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| Rating | : | 4.16 (632 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0520270169 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 752 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2017-02-11 |
| Language | : | English |
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--Joshua Cohen"Harper's" (05/01/2012)"Proctor s extensive use of previously secret tobacco industry documents makes his case convincing, even compelling. --Barron H. --Carol Benedict, Georgetown University"American Historical Review" (02/17/2013)""Proctor s book will be of great interest it debunks fraudulent industry claims past and present, provides credible arguments for banning cigarettes, and delineates steps to take before abolition is politically possible. Lerner, New York University School of Medicine"Bulletin Of The History Of Medicine" (01/23/2013)"A historian's testimony on his own terms. --Katheri
In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor tells he
John R Mashey said A truly important book, appropriately horrifying. I have read Allan Brandt's The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America, David Michaels'Doubt is Their Product: How Industry's Assault on Science Threatens Your Health, Proctor's earlier Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know And Don't Know About Cancer and Agnotology: The Making and Un. Michael R. said It is a book you never get tired of.. It is a book you never get tired of. There's so much information and sense of the human condition that you would never finish it .. Scholarship pointing to a solution Stephen Hamann I am pleased to say I have read and greatly enjoyed this book. As others have already stated, the tobacco industry and various of its co-conspirators are exposed in Proctor's Golden Holocaust. This includes a history of lies, fraud, conspiracy to defraud and misrepresent, illegal actions, and entwining politicians, academics, public relations ex