Amongst these items are a number of rare and out-of-print books that we have found here and there on the Internet. Education is a key to understanding of both your cause and its enemies. Please think of this as an interactive library, to find information, and to share it too. If you know of a book or other informational resource you would like to see added to this library, submit it by clicking here. Light a cigarette, fill a glass, get your munchies and … happy reading!
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Smoke Without Fear | Donald G. Cooley
Outline: This pamphlet published in 1954 has had Anti wetting her pants ever since. The author, science writer Donald G. Cooley, not unreasonably sought information about cigarettes from the companies that manufactured them. Big Tobacco’s Public Relations representatives obliged and also assisted in finding…
Butt Out | Patrick Basham
Outline: This book argues that giving the FDA the authority and the responsibility for a good chunk of the tobacco file is a terrible public health policy blunder, especially given the significance of US tobacco control for the rest of the world, effectively giving it a large measure of responsibility for global…
The Rise of Global Governance | Henry Lamb
Outline: Imagine a world with one set of values – imposed by law. A planet with one smoking ban, where tobacco is more illegal than the most poisonous illegal drug – this is already in progress. The heath police, everywere, will invade your home looking for illegal cigarettes, fatty food, illegal…
The Dumbest Generation | Michael Graham
Outline: Why do we believe in the dangers of active and passive smoking? Do we believe the global warming fraud? Why do we live in the fear of getting sick, are obsessed with risk and have adopted the Precautionary Principle that prevents almost all social, economic and industrial development while killing…
Diet Nation: Exposing the Obesity Crusade | John Luik, Patrick Basham, Gio Gori
Outline: At the fag end of 2008, two experts look back at puffed-up claims about smoking bans and the ‘obesity epidemic’. Two of the most cherished claims of the health lobby during 2008 have been that public smoking bans reduce smoking and that we are in the midst of an unending epidemic of overweight…
Hyping Health Risks: Environmental Hazards in Daily Life and the Science of Epidemiology | Geoffrey C. Kabat
Outline: As many of you know, Kabat was the co-author with James Enstrom of the study Environmental tobacco smoke and tobacco related mortality in a prospective study of Californians, 1960-98), already present on our Scientific Portal. The study demonstrated conclusively that passive smoking exposure is harmless…
Grow Roll Smoke - How to Achieve the Rewards of Your Own Garden Tobacco Harvest | Benjamin Street
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The Trouble With Medical Journals | Richard Smith
Outline: Richard Smith, a previous editor of the British Medical Journal for twenty five years, and one of the most influential people within medical journals and medicine, gives a compelling picture of medical publishing. Drawn from the author's own extensive and unrivalled experience in medical publishing,…
Hooked: Ethics, the Medical Profession, and the Pharmaceutical Industry | Howard Brody
Outline: For decades, medical professionals have betrayed the public's trust by accepting various benefits from the pharmaceutical industry. Both drug company representatives and doctors employ artful spin to portray this behavior positively to the public, and to themselves. In Hooked, Howard Brody argues that…
Velvet Glove Iron Fist: a History of Anti-smoking | Christopher Snowdon
Outline: Velvet Glove Iron Fist is brilliantly documented with firsthand sources to chronicle the ups and downs of antitobacco movements through the centuries. Of course, antismoking movements lead to other temperence movements that also morph into prohibitionist states. Using his thorough documentation, the…
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