Ashes To Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, The Public Health, And The Unabashed Triumph Of Philip Morris by Richard Kluger

Ashes to Ashes is a monumental history of the American tobacco industry's ironic success in developing the cigarette, modern society's most widespread instrument of self-destruction, into the nation's most profitable consumer product. Starting with its energized, work-obsessed royal families, the Dukes and the Reynoldses, and their embattled successors like the eccentric autocrat George Washington Hill and the feisty Joseph F. Cullman, the book vividly portrays the cigarrette makers generations of entrepreneurial geniuses. Their problematic achievement was based on cunning business strategies and marketing dazzle, deft political power plays, and a relentless, often devious attack on antismoking forces in science, public health, and government. Enabling the whole process to unfold was the weirdly symbiotic relationship of an industry geared at any cost to sell, sell, sell cigarettes, and an American public habituated to ignore all health warnings and buy, buy, buy. This 1996 Alfred A. Knopf Hardback is in good condition. DJ; Price clipped; Heavy; Owner's Name inside. Owner's initials inside and also written on bottom paper text block.

ISBN: 9780394570761 SKU: 1569007 This image is of the actual book.

Location: Non Fiction