Full name: Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

Author: Robert N. Proctor Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Award winners, Non Fiction, Science, History Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9781280492112 9780520270169 1280492112 0520270169

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. Similar books: The Botany of Desire by Michael Pollan A Man on the Moon by Andrew Chaikin The Sixth Extinction by Elizabeth Kolbert The Information by James Gleick How to Make a Spaceship by Julian Guthrie The Children's Blizzard by David Laskin Stuff Matters by Mark Miodownik Life Ascending by Nick Lane The Perfectionists by Simon Winchester Global Crisis by Geoffrey Parker The Rise And Fall Of Modern Medicine by James Le Fanu Rats by Robert Sullivan Voices from Chernobyl by Svetlana Alexievich A Short History of Nearly Everything by Bill Bryson The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks by Rebecca Skloot Stiff by Mary Roach And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts October Sky by Homer Hickam Galileo's Daughter by Dava Sobel Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington