Brandt, Allan M.

The cigarette century the rise, fall, and deadly persistence of the product that defined America / [electronic resource] : Allan M . Brandt. - New York : Basic Books, c2007. - vii, 600 p., [32] p. of plates : ill. ; 25 cm. - ACLS Humanities E-Book. .

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 d octors smoke Camels -- The causal conundrum -- Constructing controversy -- Politics -- The surgeon general has determined -- Congress : the be st 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.


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Ann Arbor, Mich. :
University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing,
2009.
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Tobacco industry-- History-- United States-- 20th century.
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