The Cigarette
Title | The Cigarette PDF eBook |
Author | Sarah Milov |
Publisher | Harvard University Press |
Pages | 401 |
Release | 2019-10-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0674241215 |
The story of tobacco’s fortunes seems simple: science triumphed over addiction and profit. Yet the reality is more complicated—and more political. Historically it was not just bad habits but also the state that lifted the tobacco industry. What brought about change was not medical advice but organized pressure: a movement for nonsmoker’s rights.
The Cigarette Papers
Title | The Cigarette Papers PDF eBook |
Author | Stanton A. Glantz |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 562 |
Release | 1996 |
Genre | Business & Economics |
ISBN | 9780520213722 |
These documents provide a shocking inside account of the activities of one tobacco company, Brown & Williamson, and its multinational parent, British American Tobacco, over more than thirty years.
The Cigarette Century
Title | The Cigarette Century PDF eBook |
Author | Allan M. Brandt |
Publisher | Basic Books |
Pages | 644 |
Release | 2009-01-06 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 0786721901 |
The invention of mass marketing led to cigarettes being emblazoned in advertising and film, deeply tied to modern notions of glamour and sex appeal. It is hard to find a photo of Humphrey Bogart or Lauren Bacall without a cigarette. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. And no product has received such sustained scientific scrutiny. The development of new medical knowledge demonstrating the dire harms of smoking ultimately shaped the evolution of evidence-based medicine. In response, the tobacco industry engineered a campaign of scientific disinformation seeking to delay, disrupt, and suppress these studies. Using a massive archive of previously secret documents, historian Allan Brandt shows how the industry pioneered these campaigns, particularly using special interest lobbying and largesse to elude regulation. But even as the cultural dominance of the cigarette has waned and consumption has fallen dramatically in the U.S., Big Tobacco remains securely positioned to expand into new global markets. The implications for the future are vast: 100 million people died of smoking-related diseases in the 20th century; in the next 100 years, we expect 1 billion deaths worldwide.
The Cigarette Book
Title | The Cigarette Book PDF eBook |
Author | Chris Harrald |
Publisher | Skyhorse Publishing Inc. |
Pages | 257 |
Release | 2010-11 |
Genre | Antiques & Collectibles |
ISBN | 1616080736 |
A truthful and learned treasury of musings on the miracle drug.Beryl...
Golden Holocaust
Title | Golden Holocaust PDF eBook |
Author | Robert N. Proctor |
Publisher | Univ of California Press |
Pages | 779 |
Release | 2012-02-28 |
Genre | Medical |
ISBN | 0520950437 |
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 explore how the cigarette came to be the most widely-used drug on the planet, with six trillion sticks sold per year. He paints a harrowing picture of tobacco manufacturers conspiring to block the recognition of tobacco-cancer hazards, even as they ensnare legions of scientists and politicians in a web of denial. Proctor tells heretofore untold stories of fraud and subterfuge, and he makes the strongest case to date for a simple yet ambitious remedy: a ban on the manufacture and sale of cigarettes.
Cigarette Girl
Title | Cigarette Girl PDF eBook |
Author | Ratih Kumala |
Publisher | Monsoon Books |
Pages | 228 |
Release | 2017-01-30 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 9814625485 |
Savour the familiar scent of clove and tobacco … for this is the aroma of Indonesia’s history. Soeraja is dying. On his deathbed he calls for Jeng Yah, a woman who is not his wife. His three sons, Lebas, Karim and Tegar – heirs to Kretek Djagad Raja, Indonesia’s largest clove cigarette empire – are shocked, and their mother is consumed by jealousy. So begins the brothers’ search into the deepest recesses of Java for Jeng Yah, to fulfil their father’s dying wish and to learn the truth about the family business and its secrets. Cigarette Girl is more than just a love story and the soul-searching journey of three brothers. Set on the island of Java the story follows the evolution of a family’s kretek, or clove cigarette, business from its birth in the Dutch East Indies of the early 1940s, and it takes readers through three generations of Indonesian history, from the Dutch colonial era to the Japanese occupation, the struggle for independence and the bloody coup of 1965 in which half a million Indonesians were hunted down and killed. Rich in detail, with characters who struggle to right the wrongs of past generations, their relationships torn apart by the viciousness of revolution and politics, Cigarette Girl introduces readers to the history of Indonesia through clove cigarettes and unrequited love.
Cigarettes
Title | Cigarettes PDF eBook |
Author | Harry Mathews |
Publisher | Deep Vellum Publishing |
Pages | 214 |
Release | 2023-01-17 |
Genre | Fiction |
ISBN | 1628974796 |
Cigarettes is a novel about the rich and powerful, tracing their complicated relationships from the 1930s to the 1960s, from New York City to Upper New York State. Though nothing is as simple as it might appear to be, we could describe this as a story about Allen, who is married to Maud but having an affair with Elizabeth, who lives with Maud. Or say it is a story about fraud in the art world, horse racing, and sexual intrigues. Or, as one critic did, compare it to a Jane Austen creation, or to an Aldous Huxley novel—and be right and wrong on both counts. What one can emphatically say is that Cigarettes is a brilliant display of Harry Mathews's ingenuity and deadly playfulness.