The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
ISBN: 9780465070480 | 0465070485
Edition: 1stFormat: Paperback
Publisher: BASIC BOOKS
Pub. Date: 1/1/2009
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From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture, science, policy, and law. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. The Cigarette Century shows in striking detail how one ephemeral (and largely useless) product came to play such a dominant role in so many aspects of our lives-and deaths. Book jacket.
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| Introduction: The Camel Man and Me | p. 1 |
| Culture | |
| Pro Bono Publico | p. 19 |
| Tobacco as Much as Bullets | p. 45 |
| Engineering Consent | p. 69 |
| Science | |
| More Doctors Smoke Camels | p. 105 |
| The Causal Conundrum | p. 131 |
| Constructing Controversy | p. 159 |
| Politics | |
| The Surgeon General Has Determined | ... MORE |
| Congress: The Best Filter Yet | p. 241 |
| Your Cigarette Is Killing Me | p. 279 |
| Law | |
| Nicotine Is the Product | p. 319 |
| Mr. Butts Goes to Washington | p. 357 |
| The Trials of Big Tobacco | p. 401 |
| Globalization | |
| Exporting an Epidemic | p. 449 |
| Epilogue: The Crime of the Century | p. 493 |
| References | p. 507 |
| Note on Sources | p. 579 |
| Acknowledgments | p. 583 |
| Index | p. 585 |
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Allan M. Brandt is the Amalie Moses Kass Professor of the History of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and a professor in the Department of the History of Science at Harvard University. His previous writings include the book No Magic Bullet: A Social History of Venereal Disease in the United States Since 1880.
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