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Author Kluger, Richard.

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

Publication Info. New York : Vintage Books, 1997.
©1996

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 East Hartford, Raymond Library - Adult Department  394.1 K    Check Shelf
Edition First Vintage Books edition.
Description xix, 811 pages ; 21 cm
Note "With a new afterword"--Cover.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [772]-776) and index.
Contents Adoring the devil's breath -- The earth with a fence around it -- It takes the hair right off your bean -- The golden age of malarkey -- "Shall we just have a cigarette on it?" -- The filter tip and other placebos -- The anguish of the Russian count -- Grand inquisitors -- Marlboro mirage -- Three-ton dog on the prowl -- Stroking the sow's ear -- Let there be light -- Breeding a one-fanged rattler -- The heights of arrogance -- The calling of Philip Morris -- Of dragonslayers and pond scum -- Chow lines -- Melancholy Rose -- Smooth characters -- Blowing smoke.
Subject Nicotine addiction -- United States -- History.
Smoking -- United States -- History.
Tobacco use -- United States -- History.
Cigarette industry -- United States -- History.
Tobacco industry -- United States -- History.
Smoking -- history -- United States.
Tobacco Use Disorder -- history -- United States.
ISBN 0375700366
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