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Ashes to ashes : America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris

Title: Ashes to ashes : America's hundred-year cigarette war, the public health, and the unabashed triumph of Philip Morris / Richard Kluger.
Author: Kluger, Richard.
Publication: New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 1996.

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Description

xix, 807 pages; 25 cm

Subjects

Tobacco use > United States > History
Tobacco industry > United States > History
Cigarette industry > United States > History
Smoking > United States > History

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [768]-772) and index.

Contents

Foreword: A Quick Drag -- 1. Adoring the Devil's Breath -- 2. The Earth with a Fence Around It -- 3. It Takes the Hair Right Off Your Bean -- 4. The Golden Age of Malarkey -- 5. "Shall We Just Have a Cigarette on It?" -- 6. The Filter Tip and Other Placebos -- 7. The Anguish of the Russian Count -- 8. Grand Inquisitors -- 9. Marlboro Mirage -- 10. Three-Ton Dog oil the Prowl -- 11. Stroking the Sow's Ear -- 12. Let There Be Light -- 13. Breeding a One-Fanged Rattler -- 14. The Heights of Arrogance -- 15. The Calling of Philip Morris -- 16. Of Dragonslayers and Pond Scum -- 17. Chow Lines -- 18. Melancholy Rose -- 19. Smooth Characters -- 20. Blowing Smoke.

ISBN

0394570766

LCCN

95042103

OCLC

ocm33207527

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries