Golden Holocaust Quotes

“Tobacco is not like wine but is rather more like smallpox or heroin.”
― Robert N. Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

“The total value of all goods shipped to Europe from 1947 through 1951 was about $13 billion, about $1 billion of which was tobacco. Nearly a third (!) of all “food-related” funding in the plan went for tobacco.”
― Robert N. Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition

“turned smoking from a marginal indulgence of questionable morality to an unobjectionable mark of stalwart manhood.”
― Robert N. Proctor, Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition