Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for AbolitionThe 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. |
Contents
The Second Addiction | |
Marketing Genius Unleashed | |
Sponsoring Sports to Sell Smoke | |
Philip Morriss Think Dont Smoke book cover sent to American high schools as part of an effort to appear to oppose youth smoking | |
Right Decisions Right Now part of R J Reynoldss campaign to help counter peer pressure an adolescent may feel to smoke | |
Tobacco is Whacko if youre a Teen Lorillards response to Philip Morriss Think Dont Smoke campaign | |
Nigger Hair tobacco circa 1930 | |
Official Virginia Slims tennis umpire badge with the smoking Ginny | |
Philip Morris advertises its donation of money to the Philippine National Red Cross | |
Marketing Kent cigarettes to African American physicians 17 The semiotics of Silk Cut a Gallaherbrand cigarette smoked in Europe 18 Cigarette pac... | |
Cigarette packs for your dollhouse or toy soldier 23 Angel H Roffos image of tobacco tar tumors on the ear of a rabbit circa 1936 | |
Parties the Arts and Extreme Expeditions | |
Tobacco 2 0 | |
PART TWO DISCOVERING THE CANCER HAZARD | |
Early Experimental Carcinogenesis | |
Roffos Foray and the Nazi Response | |
The Führer Has Called Us And We All Say Yes from the German tobacco trade 1938 | |
TobaccoFriendly Research at the Medical College of Virginia | |
Claude E Teagues 1953 Survey of Cancer Research | |
Clandestine Cancer Research Financed by Tobacco via the Damon Runyon Fund | |
Ecustas Experiments | |
Consensus Hubris and Duplicity | |
PART THREE CONSPIRACY ON A GRAND SCALE | |
Distraction Research Decoy Research Filibuster Research | |
Agnotology in Action | |
The Impact of Industry Disinformation on Popular Knowledge of Tobacco Hazards | |
Filter Flimflam | |
The Grand Fraud of Ventilation | |
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Tobacco tax patriotism | |
Cigarette rollers in nineteenthcentury America | |
Bonsack cigarettemaking machine from 1881 | |
Results of Accelerated Animal Tests from the Ecusta Paper Corporation July 1 1953 | |
A Frank Statement to Cigarette Smokers January 4 1954 | |
The Tobacco Institutes graphic agnotology 1979 | |
Lorillard ad for highly ventilated True cigarettes 1976 | |
Dr Kool paperweight 1930s | |
Like a peeing section in a swimming pool? | |
Freebasing to Augment a Cigarettes Kick | |
The Light Cigarette Scam | |
Penetrating the Universities | |
Historians Join the Conspiracy | |
PART FOUR RADIANT FILTH AND REDEMPTION | |
Three Mile Marlboro and the Sleeping Giant | |
The Odd Business of Buttsand the Global Warming Wild Card | |
Globalizing Death | |
What Must Be Done | |
Notes | |
Selected Bibliography | |
Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon | |
Timeline of Tobacco Industry Diversification into Candy Food Alcohol and Other | |
Index | |
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