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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…
The Banbury Report: a Safe Cigarette? | The Banbury Team
Outline: This is a very special book – and yes, it is for the specialist. What we hear about cigarettes being an "inherently defective product" (that is, they cannot be made safer) is yet another antismoking lie, coming from dark ideology and not from science. This book basically tells you how…
Dissecting Antismokers' Brains | Michael McFadden
Outline: Dissecting Antismokers' Brains dumps traditional "conspiracy theory" thinking about social movements and examines the rise of public feeling against smokers and smoking as the being the product of a number of diverse groups and individuals with differing motivations. Today's antismoking…
In Defense of Smokers | Lauren A. Colby
Outline: Lauren Colby is a practicing attorney from Washington DC, and a civil libertarian. He has dedicated a good part of his life to studying the evidence and documentation of the largest epidemiological fraud of history, that on active and passive smoking. The result of his work is this book, available on…
Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of 'The Little White Slaver' | Cassandra Tate
Outline: A brief yet detailed history of the fluctuating popularity of the cigarette in America and of the reform movements dedicated to snuffing it out. According to journalist and historian Tate, in her first book, when James B. Duke created the modern American cigarette industry in the 1880s, the cigarette…
The Deliberate Dumbing Down of America | Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt
Outline: "Charlotte Thomson Iserbyt has put together the most formidable and practical compilation of documentation describing the well-planned 'deliberate dumbing down' of American children by their education system. Anyone who has had any lingering hope that what the educators have been doing is a result…
The Faber Book of Smoking | James Walton
Outline: With contributions from the likes of Sir Walter Raleigh and Kenneth Williams, Samuel Johnson and Helen Fielding, The Faber Book of Smoking tells the fascinating story of one of humankind's most persistent and peculiar habits. The result is a rich, lively and unexpectedly funny anthology.
Addiction is a Choice | Jeffrey Schaler, Ph.D.
Outline: Written for both lay and professional readers, this book offers new approaches to understanding addiction and the public policies necessary to successfully battle its detrimental effects on society. The author explains why current policies are ineffective and how they fail to cure the "problem.&…
The Nazi War on Cancer | Robert N. Proctor
Outline: Professor Proctor has written a compelling and wonderfully readable account of how Nazi physicians confronted cancer. Sophisticated research went with racial megalomania, as German researchers targeted diet, occupation, smoking, and radium as cancer-inducing. Understanding the Nazi politics of medical…
For Your Own Good: The Anti-Smoking Crusade and the Tyranny of Public Health | Jacob Sullum
Outline: Jacob Sullum demolishes the leading claims of the antismoking movement; their assertions have been advanced, he says, because the movement's principals would like the government to take control of the tobacco industry. Have you heard that secondhand smoke is bad for you? "There is no evidence that…
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