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Big Tobacco Indicts Itself
Golden Holocaust Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition . . . Drawing on formerly secret industry records, Proctor explores how cigarettes became the most widely used drug on the planet—and argues for a ban on their manufacture
Jul 27, 2012
Science
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Jul 31, 2012 13:36
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SIEGEL: New Book Tells "Some of the Story" About Department of Justice's Lawsuit Against Big Tobacco
Asking for $130 billion and receiving $0 billion does not contribute to improving the public's health. Spending more time crafting forward-looking remedies, such as more stringent regulation of cigarette advertising and marketing practices, may have resul
Jul 5, 2012
The Rest of the Story-Tobacco Analasys and Commentary (Michael Siegel blog)
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Jul 31, 2012 16:44
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The Book Big Tobacco Doesn't Want You to Read
With "Golden Holocaust," historian Robert Proctor deconstructs an industry that still kills more than 400,000 Americans a year.
May 15, 2012
Mother Jones Magazine
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May 15, 2012 10:44
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Who Knew What and When?
Pisgah Forest in North Carolina's transylvania County may seem like an odd place for human health fortunes to have pivoted, but there's something to be said for it. Here in the fall of 1953 an experiment was conducted that would change how tobacco compani
Sep 7, 2012
National Public Radio (NPR)
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Sep 13, 2012 15:09
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[Canada] Women and tobacco: Smoke and mirrors
For women who take up tobacco, the allure of smoking is all rolled up in self-image and identity
Jun 25, 2012
Vancouver (BC) Sun (ca)
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Jun 26, 2012 15:02
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Behind the scenes in the racketeering case against the tobacco industry
With co-author and APHA member Stanton Glantz, PhD, Eubanks brings readers behind the scenes of that lawsuit in “Bad Acts: The Racketeering Case Against the Tobacco Industry,” newly published by APHA Press. Here she talks with Public Health Newswire abou
May 16, 2012
Public Health Newswire (APHA)
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Jun 17, 2012 12:04
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He’s Back All Right, Now With a Memoir
When Arnold Schwarzenegger was governor of California, a reporter asked about the Cohiba label on the cigar Mr. Schwarzenegger was smoking. “That’s a Cuban cigar,” the reporter said. “You’re the governor. How can you flout the law?”
Oct 1, 2012
New York Times
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Oct 1, 2012 04:12
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Bad Acts: The Racketeering Case Against the Tobacco Industry
Drafting the racketeering statute, as I did, only put it on the books. Eubanks tenacity in litigating under it against Big Tobacco, despite the odds against her, made it effective against one of its most egregious offenders. I heartily recommend her story
Jun 29, 2012
amazon.com
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Jun 29, 2012 15:24
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[Pennsylvania] Dark secret, plot impacting tobacco industry affect retiree in fictional account
Genetti is harboring a dark secret that has driven him to decide to commit suicide, and while on the journey he stumbles across a plot impacting one of the largest industries in the country - the tobacco industry - putting his life in jeopardy.
Jan 7, 2013
Pottsville (PA) Republican
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Jan 7, 2013 07:20
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World Atlas: More People Smoking Cigarettes than Ever Before
Top of the charts in terms of nicotine addiction are Asia and Australia, which is where 57 percent of cigarettes are smoked today. These alarming statistics are among many of the intriguing facts laid bare in the ninth edition of Dan Smith's The State o
Jan 6, 2013
IBTimes (uk)
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Jan 6, 2013 14:14