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The Cigarette Papers

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In May 1994, a box containing 4000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents arrived at the office of Professor Stanton Glantz at the University of California, San Francisco. The anonymous source of these "cigarette papers" was identified in the return address only as "Mr. Butts" - presumably a reference to the Doonesbury cartoon character. These documents provide a shocking inside account of the activities of one tobacco company over more than 30 years. This book seeks to show that the tobacco industry's conduct has been more cynical and devious than even its harshest critics have suspected. For more than three decades, the industry has internally acknowledged that smoking is addictive and that use of tobacco products causes disease and death. Despite this acknowledgment, based on the industry's own internal and contract research, the industry has engaged in a variety of tactics to deny its own findings and to convince the public that there is still doubt about the harmful effects of tobacco or that the effects have been exaggerated. These campaigns of disinformation, the text argues, have been designed to maintain company profits, to block government regulation, and to defeat

Author Biography:

Stanton A. Glantz, Ph.D., Lisa A. Bero, Ph.D., Peter Hanauer, LL.B., and Deborah E. Barnes, B.A., are affiliated with the Institute for Health Policy Studies, the Department of Medicine, and the Division of Clinical Pharmacy at the University of California, San Francisco. John Slade, M.D., is with the Department of Medicine at St. Peter's Medical Center and the Robert Wood Johnson Medical School in New Brunswick, New Jersey.
Release date Australia
May 12th, 1998
Audience
  • General (US: Trade)
Contributors
  • Edited by Deborah E. Barnes
  • Edited by John Slade
  • Edited by Lisa A. Bero
  • Edited by Peter Hanauer
  • Edited by Stanton A. Glantz
  • Foreword by C. Everett Koop
Pages
560
Dimensions
152x229x33
ISBN-13
9780520213722
Product ID
7578836

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