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. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to...
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Berkeley
University of California Press
2012
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Table of Contents:
- Golden holocaust : origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition -- Contents -- Illustrations -- Prologue -- Introduction: Who Knew What and When? -- Part One: The triumph of the Cigarette -- 1. The Flue-Curing Revolution -- 2. Matches and Mechanization -- 3. War Likes Tobacco, Tobacco Likes War -- 4. Taxation: The Second Addiction -- 5. Marketing Genius Unleashed -- 6. Sponsoring Sports to Sell Smoke -- 7. Parties, the Arts, and Extreme Expeditions -- 8. Clouding the Web: Tobacco 2.0 -- Part Two: Discovering The Cancer Hazard -- 9. Early Experimental Carcinogenesis -- 10. Roffo’s Foray and the Nazi Response -- 11. “Sold American”: Tobacco-Friendly Research at the Medical College of Virginia -- 12. A Most Feared Document: Claude E. Teague’s 1953 “Survey of Cancer Research” -- 13. “Silent Collaborators”: Clandestine Cancer Research Financed by Tobacco via the Damon Runyon Fund -- 14. Ecusta’s Experiments -- 15. Consensus, Hubris, and Duplicity -- Part Three: Conspiracy On A Grand Scale -- 16. The Council for Tobacco Research: Distraction Research, Decoy Research, Filibuster Research -- 17. Agnotology in Action -- 18. Measuring Ignorance: The Impact of Industry Disinformation on Popular Knowledge of Tobacco Hazards -- 19. Filter Flimflam -- 20. The Grand Fraud of Ventilation -- 21. Crack Nicotine: Freebasing to Augment a Cigarette’s “Kick” -- 22. The “Light Cigarette” Scam -- 23. Penetrating the Universities -- 24. Historians Join the Conspiracy -- Part Four: Radiant Filth And Redemption -- 25. What’s Actually in your Cigarette? -- 26. Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke: “Three Mile Marlboro” and the Sleeping Giant -- 27. The odd Business of Butts—and the Global Warming Wild Card -- 28. “Safer” Cigarettes? -- 29. Globalizing Death -- 30. What Must Be Done -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon -- Timeline of Global Tobacco Mergers and Acquisitions -- Timeline of Tobacco Industry Diversification into Candy, Food, Alcohol, and Other Products -- Acknowledgments -- Index.
- Front Matter Table of Contents List of Illustrations PROLOGUE Introduction: [PART ONE. Introduction] 1: The Flue-Curing Revolution 2: Matches and Mechanization 3: War Likes Tobacco, Tobacco Likes War 4: Taxation: 5: Marketing Genius Unleashed 6: Sponsoring Sports to Sell Smoke 7: Parties, the Arts, and Extreme Expeditions 8: Clouding the Web: [PART TWO. Introduction] 9: Early Experimental Carcinogenesis 10: Roffo’s Foray and the Nazi Response 11: “Sold American”: 12: A Most Feared Document: 13: “Silent Collaborators”: 14: Ecusta’s Experiments 15: Consensus, Hubris, and Duplicity [PART THREE. Introduction] 16: The Council for Tobacco Research: 17: Agnotology in Action 18: Measuring Ignorance: 19: Filter Flimflam 20: The Grand Fraud of Ventilation [Illustrations] 21: Crack Nicotine: 22: The “Light Cigarette” Scam 23: Penetrating the Universities 24: Historians Join the Conspiracy [PART FOUR. Introduction] 25: What’s Actually in Your Cigarette? 26: Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke: 27: The Odd Business of Butts—and the Global Warming Wildcard 28: “Safer” Cigarettes? 29: Globalizing Death 30: What Must Be Done NOTES SELECTED BIBLIOGRAPHY LEXICON OF TOBACCO INDUSTRY JARGON TIMELINE OF GLOBAL TOBACCO MERGERS AND ACQUISITIONS (SELECTED) TIMELINE OF TOBACCO INDUSTRY DIVERSIFICATION INTO CANDY, FOOD, ALCOHOL, AND OTHER PRODUCTS (SELECTED) ACKNOWLEDGMENTS INDEX Back Matter
- Timeline of Tobacco Industry Diversification into Candy, Food, Alcohol, and Other Products -- Acknowledgments -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z
- Cover -- Contents -- List of Illustrations -- Prologue -- Introduction: Who Knew What and When? -- PART ONE. THE TRIUMPH OF THE CIGARETTE -- 1. The Flue-Curing Revolution -- 2. Matches and Mechanization -- 3. War Likes Tobacco, Tobacco Likes War -- 4. Taxation: The Second Addiction -- 5. Marketing Genius Unleashed -- 6. Sponsoring Sports to Sell Smoke -- 7. Parties, the Arts, and Extreme Expeditions -- 8. Clouding the Web: Tobacco 2.0 -- PART TWO. DISCOVERING THE CANCER HAZARD -- 9. Early Experimental Carcinogenesis -- 10. Roffo's Foray and the Nazi Response -- 11. "Sold American": Tobacco-Friendly Research at the Medical College of Virginia -- 12. A Most Feared Document: Claude E. Teague's 1953 "Survey of Cancer Research" -- 13. "Silent Collaborators": Clandestine Cancer Research Financed by Tobacco via the Damon Runyon Fund -- 14. Ecusta's Experiments -- 15. Consensus, Hubris, and Duplicity -- PART THREE. CONSPIRACY ON A GRAND SCALE -- 16. The Council for Tobacco Research: Distraction Research, Decoy Research, Filibuster Research -- 17. Agnotology in Action -- 18. Measuring Ignorance: The Impact of Industry Disinformation on Popular Knowledge of Tobacco Hazards -- 19. Filter Flimflam -- 20. The Grand Fraud of Ventilation -- 21. Crack Nicotine: Freebasing to Augment a Cigarette's "Kick" -- 22. The "Light Cigarette" Scam -- 23. Penetrating the Universities -- 24. Historians Join the Conspiracy -- PART FOUR. RADIANT FILTH AND REDEMPTION -- 25. What's Actually in your Cigarette? -- 26. Radioactivity in Cigarette Smoke: "Three Mile Marlboro" and the Sleeping Giant -- 27. The odd Business of Butts-and the Global Warming Wild Card -- 28. "Safer" Cigarettes? -- 29. Globalizing Death -- 30. What Must Be Done -- Notes -- Selected Bibliography -- Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon -- Timeline of Global Tobacco Mergers and Acquisitions
- Acknowledgments --
- Part One. The Triumph of the Cigarette --
- Contents --
- Introduction: Who Knew What and When? --
- Index
- Illustrations --
- Part Four. Radiant Filth and Redemption --
- Lexicon of Tobacco Industry Jargon --
- Selected Bibliography --
- Part Two. Discovering the Cancer Hazard --
- Prologue --
- Timeline of Global Tobacco Mergers and Acquisitions (selected) --
- Frontmatter --
- Timeline of Tobacco Industry Diversification into Candy, Food, Alcohol, and other Products (selected) --
- Part Three. Conspiracy on a Grand Scale --
- Notes --