The Cigarette Century - The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
Inbunden bok. Basic Books. 1 uppl. 2007. 632 sidor.
Nyskick. Skyddsomslag i nyskick. PRESENTSKICK! A brilliant history, and analysis of America´s struggle with cigarettes, a self-interest perverted tobacco industry, and public health. The definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture, science, policy, and law. Text in English. 600 text pages + [32] p. pictorial plates. Hardcover, colored endpapers, dustjacket. 8:o. 242x165x51 mm. 925 g. [0409] /---/ 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.
Förlagsfakta
- ISBN
- 9780465070473
- Titel
- The cigarette century : the rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America
- Författare
- Brandt, Allan M.
- Förlag
- New York : Basic Books
- Språk
- English
- Baksidestext
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 507-578) and index.
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.
