The Cigarette Century

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The Cigarette Century
The Cigarette Century
Author : Allan Brandt
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Publisher : Basic Books
Language : English
Release Date : 06 January 2009
ISBN : 9780786721900
Pages : 640 pages
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From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture, science, policy, and law. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. The Cigarette Century shows in striking detail how one ephemeral (and largely useless) product came to play such a dominant role in so many aspects of our lives—and deaths.

The Cigarette Century

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