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Thank You for Smoking
by Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley's satirical gift shines in this hilarious
look at the ironies of "personal freedom" and the unbearable smugness
of political correctness. Bracing in its cynicism, Thank You for Smoking is a
delightful meander off the beaten path of mainstream American ethics. And
despite his hypertension-inducing, slander-splattered, morally bankrupt
behavior--which leads one Larry King listener to describe him as "lower
than whale crap"--you'll find yourself rooting for smoking's mass enabler.
--Rebekah Warren
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Silencing Science
by Michael Gough, Steven J. Milloy
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Slow Burn : The Great American Antismoking Scam
(And Why It Will Fail)
by Don Oakley
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For Your Own Good : The Anti-Smoking Crusade and
the Tyranny of Public Health
by Jacob Sullum
In this controversial book, Jacob Sullum demolishes the leading
claims of the antismoking movement; their assertions have been advanced, he
says, because the movement's principals would like the government to take
control of the tobacco industry. Have you heard that secondhand smoke is bad
for you? "There is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke
has any impact on your life expectancy," writes Sullum, a drug policy
expert and senior editor at Reason magazine. The debate over smoking is really
more about the nature of liberty--how should a society restrict the choices of
its members?--than it is about public health.
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Does Advertising Increase Smoking?: Economics,
Free Speech and Advertising Bans
by Hugh High
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The People Vs. Big Tobacco : How the States Took
on the Cigarette Giants
by Carrick Mollenkamp (Editor), Adam Levy, Joseph Menn (Editor), Jeffrey
Rothfeder (Editor)
The People Vs. Big Tobacco: How the States Took on the
Cigarette Giants is a blow-by-blow account of how the "Mother of All
Lawsuits" was eventually settled, who the major players were, and what the
settlement actually means for the future of Big Tobacco.
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Cornered : Big Tobacco at the Bar of
Justice
by Peter Pringle
There are many threads to be pulled together, and Peter Pringle
pulls them nicely.... Cornered, in its meticulous explanation, is finally an
illustration of what's wrong with using the courts--or a regulatory agency, for
that matter--to resolve a social mess.
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The Nazi War on Cancer
by Robert N. Proctor
Familiar as we are with the horrific history of Nazi medicine
and science, it may come as a surprise to learn that the Nazi war against
cancer was the most aggressive in the world. Robert N. Proctor's
thought-provoking book, The Nazi War on Cancer recounts this little-known
story. The Nazis were very concerned about protecting the health of the
"Volk." Cancer was seen as a growing threat--and perhaps even held a
special place in Adolf Hitler's imagination (his mother, Klara, died from
breast cancer in 1907). The Nazi doctors fought their war against cancer on
many fronts, battling environmental and workplace hazards (restrictions on the
use of asbestos) and recommending food standards (bans on carcinogenic
pesticides and food dyes) and early detection ("men were advised to get
their colons checked as often as they would check the engines of their
cars...").
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Cancer Scam : Diversion of Federal Cancer Funds to
Politics
by James T. Bennett, Thomas J. Dilorenzo
According to James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo, authors
of Cancerscam, smoking can be good for society, if not for the smoker. Consider
all the money the government could save, for instance, on social security if
millions of people die young from smoking-related illnesses. Much of Bennett
and DiLorenzo's book is taken up with their argument that the government's
campaign against smoking is intrusive and unwarranted. They liken smoking to
other hazardous choices such as skydiving or skateboarding and point out that
there is no national campaign to educate practitioners of these activities.
They then launch into an attack on the National Cancer Institute and the
American Cancer Society, which they accuse of diverting funds into an
antismoking program run by a left-wing public interest organization. Cigarette
manufacturers and major stockholders in tobacco companies will love this book;
those who deal with the medical, social, and personal fall-out from smoking, on
the other hand, will find little to agree with here.
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