Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780520270169)

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. 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.

Author: Robert N. Proctor
ISBN-10: 0520270169
ISBN-13: 9780520270169
Publisher: University of California Press
Language: English
Published: 02/28/2012
Pages: 774
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 2.60lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.10w x 2.00d

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal 04/15/2012 pg. 95
Choice 08/01/2012