Full name: The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America

Author: Allan M. Brandt Year: 2007 Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: History, Non Fiction, Award winners, Science, Health, Politics Purchase/reserch links: LibraryThing Goodreads Amazon ISBNs: 9780465070473 9780465070480 0465070477 0465070485

The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness.And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. The development of new medical knowledge demonstrating the dire harms of smoking ultimately shaped the evolution of evidence-based medicine. In response, the tobacco industry engineered a campaign of scientific disinformation seeking to delay, disrupt, and suppress these studies. Using a massive archive of previously secret documents, historian Allan Brandt shows how the industry pioneered these campaigns, particularly using special interest lobbying and largesse to elude regulation.But even as the cultural dominance of the cigarette has waned and consumption has fallen dramatically in the U.S., Big Tobacco remains securely positioned to expand into new global markets. The implications for the future are vast: 100 million people died of smoking-related diseases in the 20th century; in the next 100 years, we expect 1 billion deaths worldwide. Similar books: No Magic Bullet by Allan M. Brandt Ashes to Ashes by Richard Kluger The Omnivore's Dilemma by Michael Pollan The World According to Monsanto by Marie-Monique Robin Fast Food Nation by Eric Schlosser And the Band Played On by Randy Shilts The World Without Us by Alan Weisman Medical Apartheid by Harriet A. Washington Dopesick by Beth Macy Bad Pharma by Ben Goldacre Chernobyl by S. M. Plokhy Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes Toms River by Dan Fagin The Swamp by Michael Grunwald The Plutonium Files by Eileen Welsome War Against the Weak by Edwin Black Pale Rider by Laura Spinney The Panic Virus by Seth Mnookin Influenza by Jeremy Brown Where the Water Goes by David Owen