@article{449314,
      author = {Proctor, Robert,},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/449314},
      title = {Golden holocaust origins of the cigarette catastrophe and  the case for abolition / [electronic resource] :},
      publisher = {University of California Press,},
      abstract = {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.},
      recid = {449314},
      pages = {1 online resource (x, 737 p.) :},
      address = {Berkeley :},
      year = {2011},
}