Cigarette Papers

Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes -- these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it all: revelations that tobacco companies had long known the grave dangers of smoking, and did nothing about it. In May 1994 a box containing 4,000 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 only as "Mr. Butts". These documents provide a shocking inside account of the activities of one tobacco company, Brown & Williamson, over more than thirty years. Quoting extensively from the documents themselves and analyzing what they reveal, The Cigarette Papers shows what the tobacco companies have known and galvanizes us to take action. "An invaluable reference.... Here, one can find detailed explanations of the industry's attempt at creating a 'safer cigarette, ' and how lawyers managed the companies' scientific research -- all in the language of tobacco insiders.... Provides an important public service at a time when Americans are trying to decide just how much control government should exercise over the litle white sticks". -- Sheryl Stolberg, Los Angeles Times Book Review "Makes it clear that Big Tobacco has known for decades that cigarettes are lethal and addictive and has done everything in its power to suppress and deny that knowledge.... A shocking collection of secret industry documents". -- Jonathan Franzen, The New Yorker

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	ISBN 9780520213722 Fiction/Non-Fiction Non-Fiction Publisher Univ of California Pr Pages 539 List Price $29.95 Author Deborah E. Barnes John Slade Lisa A. Bero Peter Hanauer Publication Date 04/01/1998 Release Status In Print Format Paperback Language English Measurements Weight: 1.55 Pounds Height: 9 Inches Length: 5.75 Inches Thickness: 1.75 Inches Edition Reprint Editor Stanton A. Glantz