Golden Holocaust

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Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

By Robert N. Proctor

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Golden Holocaust reveals the deadly history of the cigarette, the most lethal artifact in human civilisation. Robert N. Proctor uses formerly-secret tobacco industry documents to expose how these companies manipulated science, politics, and public perception to conceal the health risks of smoking. The book details the insidious strategies behind the mass production and marketing of cigarettes, leading to six trillion sticks sold annually, and argues for a complete ban on their manufacture and sale.
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Recommended for readers interested in health and wellness, medical history, public health policy, and the social impact of tobacco. Ideal for those seeking rigorous investigative narratives and advocates of tobacco control.

The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. This title explores how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year.

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The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilisation. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. 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.

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 heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy: a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes.

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The book is hailed as a monumental and sobering indictment of the tobacco industry by Nature and praised for exposing the depth of corporate deceit by Science (AAAS). Harper's Magazine highlights Proctor's groundbreaking use of confidential documents and his role as the first historian to testify in court on industry lies. Mother Jones calls it a detailed account of how lethal products were mass-marketed, while The Huffington Post notes its challenge to envision a world without cigarettes. Reviews commend it as a landmark study in medical history and science.

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INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780520270169

Publisher: University of California Press

Format: Hardback

Date Published: 28 February 2012

Country: United States

Imprint: University of California Press

Illustration: 40 b-w photographs

Audience: Tertiary education, Professional and scholarly

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 51.0mm

Width: 152.0mm

Height: 229.0mm

Weight: 1179g

Pages: 774

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Addiction & Recovery Education & Reference Health & Wellness Non-Fiction Robert N. Proctor

About the Author

Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and author of Cancer Wars, Racial Hygiene, and The Nazi War on Cancer He is also a Fellow of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.