Description
Product ID: | 9780520270169 |
Product Form: | Hardback |
Country of Manufacture: | US |
Title: | Golden Holocaust |
Subtitle: | Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition |
Authors: | Author: Robert N. Proctor |
Page Count: | 774 |
Subjects: | Drugs and alcohol: social aspects, Drug & substance abuse: social aspects, Manufacturing industries, History of medicine, Addiction and therapy, Tobacco industry, History of medicine, Addiction & therapy |
Description: | Select Guide Rating 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. |
Imprint Name: | University of California Press |
Publisher Name: | University of California Press |
Country of Publication: | GB |
Publishing Date: | 2012-02-28 |