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Sep 17, 2009
Angel
rated it
it was ok
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review of another edition
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history,
business-and-economics
The book is interesting at times, but it also does bog down in some technical minutiae. It is a history of the tobacco and cigarette industry from the early days in the United States to today. The changes in cultural norms over time is pretty interesting. It is interesting to see how cigarettes go from being something seen as healthy or beneficial to the terrible product they are perceived to be today. Also interesting is how the companies have done their best to deceive, misinform, misdirect, s
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600 pages of "The tobacco industry lied about tobacco's deadliness and also they'e brilliant PS cigarettes will kill you" -- reread the first half of this sentence 12,000 times and then add this book to your Read shelf
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Sep 30, 2011
Rodney Ulyate
marked it as to-read
