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

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. This title explores how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year.

• | Author: Robert N. Proctor
• | Publisher: University of California Press
• | Publication Date: Feb 28, 2012
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• | Binding: Hardback
• | ISBN-13: 9780520270169
• | ISBN-10: 0520270169