The Cigarette Century¶
Brandt. (2007). The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product that Defined America. Basic Books.
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- Ad Verecundiam (Appeal to Authority)
- For decades the industry funded scientists and physicians who testified and published casting doubt on the link between smoking and lung cancer
This sourceHistory documenting that the tobacco industry jointly funded smoking-and-health research and that physicians and scientists publicly cast doubt on the smoking-lung-cancer link, with the industry research committee testifying that causation was unproven.
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“By early 1954, many [physicians], [scientists], and public health professionals were”
- For decades the industry funded scientists and physicians who testified and published casting doubt on the link between smoking and lung cancer
- Multi-Instrument Coordinated Campaign
- … bear over decades and increasingly in concert: fiscal pressure (steep excise taxes raising the price of cigarettes), regulatory restriction (advertising bans, health warnings, smoke-free workplace and public-space laws), litigation (culminating in the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with U.S. state attorneys general
This sourceDocuments tobacco-control litigation that culminated in the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with U.S. state attorneys general, and the surrounding advertising bans, health warnings, smoke-free workplace and Clean Indoor Air Act measures.
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“121. “[Master] [Settlement] [Agreement], 1998,” accessed July 2, 2006,”
- … bear over decades and increasingly in concert: fiscal pressure (steep excise taxes raising the price of cigarettes), regulatory restriction (advertising bans, health warnings, smoke-free workplace and public-space laws), litigation (culminating in the 1998 Master Settlement Agreement with U.S. state attorneys general
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