pt. 1. The triumph of the cigarette. The flue-curing revolution
Matches and mechanization
War likes tobacco, tobacco likes war
Taxation: the second addiction
Marketing genius unleashed
Sponsoring sports to sell smoke
Parties, the arts, and extreme expeditions
Clouding the Web: tobacco 2.0
pt. 2. Discovering the cancer hazard. Early experimental carcinogenesis
Roffo's foray and the Nazi response
"Sold American": tobacco-friendly research at the Medical College of Virginia
A most feared document : Claude E. Teague's 1953 "Survey of Cancer Research"
"Silent collaborators": clandestine cancer research financed by tobacco via the Damon Runyon Fund
Ecusta's experiments
Consensus, hubris, and duplicity
pt. 3. Conspiracy on a grand scale. The Council for Tobacco Research: distraction research, decoy research, filibuster research
Agnotology in action
Measuring ignorance: the impact of industry disinformation on popular knowledge of tobacco hazards
Filter flimflam
The grand fraud of ventilation
Crack nicotine: freebasing to augment a cigarette's "kick"
The "light cigarette" scam
Penetrating the universities
Historians join the conspiracy
pt. 4. Radiant filth and redemption. What's actually in your cigarette?
Radioactivity in cigarette smoke: "three mile Marlboro" and the sleeping giant
The odd business of butts, and the global warming wild card
"Safer" cigarettes?
Globalizing death
What must be done.