Author: Richard Kluger
Publisher: Vintage
Published: 2010-05-26
Total Pages: 832
ISBN-13: 0307432831
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →PULITZER PRIZE WINNER • No book before this one has rendered the story of cigarettes—mankind's most common self-destructive instrument and its most profitable consumer product—with such sweep and enlivening detail. "A great battleship of a book—formidable, majestic.”—The New York Times Book Review Here for the first time, in a story full of the complexities and contradictions of human nature, all the strands of the historical process—financial, social, psychological, medical, political, and legal—are woven together in a riveting narrative. The key characters are the top corporate executives, public health investigators, and antismoking activists who have clashed ever more stridently as Americans debate whether smoking should be closely regulated as a major health menace. We see tobacco spread rapidly from its aboriginal sources in the New World 500 years ago, as it becomes increasingly viewed by some as sinful and some as alluring, and by government as a windfall source of tax revenue. With the arrival of the cigarette in the late-nineteenth century, smoking changes from a luxury and occasional pastime to an everyday—to some, indispensable—habit, aided markedly by the exuberance of the tobacco huskers. This free-enterprise success saga grows shadowed, from the middle of this century, as science begins to understand the cigarette's toxicity. Ironically the more detailed and persuasive the findings by medical investigators, the more cigarette makers prosper by seeming to modify their product with filters and reduced dosages of tar and nicotine. We see the tobacco manufacturers come under intensifying assault as a rogue industry for knowingly and callously plying their hazardous wares while insisting that the health charges against them (a) remain unproven, and (b) are universally understood, so smokers indulge at their own risk. Among the eye-opening disclosures here: outrageous pseudo-scientific claims made for cigarettes throughout the '30s and '40s, and the story of how the tobacco industry and the National Cancer Institute spent millions to develop a "safer" cigarette that was never brought to market. Dealing with an emotional subject that has generated more heat than light, this book is a dispassionate tour de force that examines the nature of the companies' culpability, the complicity of society as a whole, and the shaky moral ground claimed by smokers who are now demanding recompense.
Author: Walter Barlow Stevens
Publisher:
Published: 1921
Total Pages: 1070
ISBN-13:
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Publisher: Infobase Publishing
Published: 2014-05-14
Total Pages: 241
ISBN-13: 1438125623
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Presents a collection of critical essays about Marquez's, "One hundred years of solitude."
Author: Eminent Literary Men
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2023-02-02
Total Pages: 638
ISBN-13: 3382109794
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original. The publishing house Anatiposi publishes historical books as reprints. Due to their age, these books may have missing pages or inferior quality. Our aim is to preserve these books and make them available to the public so that they do not get lost.
Author: Tania Romanov
Publisher: Travelers' Tales
Published: 2020-10
Total Pages: 0
ISBN-13: 9781609521950
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Exiled from Yugoslavia, Tania Romanov's family immigrated to a promising future in San Francisco. But her Russian father's resistance to assimilation leaves her with deep resentment--and unanswered questions after his death. Serendipity and a descendant of the Tsar catapult Tania on a life-changing quest for forgiveness and redemption.
Author: Joel Dorman Steele
Publisher: BoD – Books on Demand
Published: 2024-06-06
Total Pages: 682
ISBN-13: 3385497973
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Reprint of the original, first published in 1876.