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Gasp! A Novel of Revenge | Frank Freudberg
Outline: From the Associated Press (sic): "Gasp opens at the Philadelphia home of Martin Muntor, the broken-down news editor whose diagnosis of terminal lung cancer has spurred him to take revenge on the industry that his cigarette habit has supported for years. His attacks are even more successful…
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…
Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke | Tara Parker-Pope
Outline: Cigarettes chronicles the controversies of a 350-billion-dollar industry, telling the fast-paced business story of cigarettes — from seed to smoke — that surprises as it entertains. In a book Publishers Weekly calls "an absorbing and informative history of cigarettes,&…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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