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.
Produkteigenschaften
- Artikelnummer: 9780520270169
- Medium: Buch
- ISBN: 978-0-520-27016-9
- Verlag: University of California Press
- Erscheinungstermin: 28.02.2012
- Sprache(n): Englisch
- Auflage: 1. Auflage 2012
- Produktform: Gebunden, Cloth Over Boards
- Gewicht: 1182 g
- Seiten: 774
- Format (B x H x T): 172 x 242 x 58 mm
- Ausgabetyp: Kein, Unbekannt
Themen
- Medizin | Veterinärmedizin
- Medizin | Public Health | Pharmazie | Zahnmedizin
- Medizin, Gesundheitswesen
- Public Health, Gesundheitsmanagement, Gesundheitsökonomie, Gesundheitspolitik
- Technische Wissenschaften
- Verfahrenstechnik | Chemieingenieurwesen | Biotechnologie
- Lebensmitteltechnologie und Getränketechnologie