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 -- Lexicon of tobacco industry jargon -- Timeline of global tobacco mergers and acquisitions -- Timeline of tobacco industry diversification into candy, food, alcohol, and other products.
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