Cigarettes Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke

"[A] useful guide to the world's most lethal legal industry, and to efforts to reduce the carnage at a time when globalization is extending opportunities for self-destruction through smoke to billions. Parker-Pope provides everything from an account of Columbus's discovery of 'tobaga' in 1492 to a Bob Newhart comedy routine on the challenge of persuading people to stick burning leaves in their mouths. She gives a tutorial on the differences between Bright, Burley and Oriental tobacco, the main ingredients of most cigarettes. She describes Washington's perverse efforts to help cigarette makers open new foreign markets even as it sued them for the medical costs of their products' use here. She traces the main steps on the way to Big Tobacco's recent humbling."Parker-Pope, Tara is the author of 'Cigarettes Anatomy of an Industry from Seed to Smoke' with ISBN 9781565847439 and ISBN 1565847431.