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Robert ProctorProfessor of History of Science, Stanford University Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
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The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. Even so, the disturbing fact is that most of the total toll lies in the future. Professor Proctor will explore some of the broader cultural and political causes of the epidemic, along with the corruption the tobacco industry has caused in society— in science, politics, and culture at large.
“[Golden Holocaust] draws on previously confidential industry documents and Proctor’s own experience as the first historian to testify in court about [industry] lies. What lies? How deep into the pleural linings did they go? All the way.”
— Harper's Magazine
Robert N. Proctor is Professor of the History of Science at Stanford University and the author of Cancer Wars: How Politics Shapes What We Know and Don't Know About Cancer (1995) and Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition (2012).
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