

The Cigarette
A Political History
Author: Sarah Milov
Narrator: Janet Metzger
Unabridged: 14 hr 31 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: Tantor Media
Published: 12/19/2019
Categories: Nonfiction, Business & Economics
Synopsis
After the Great Depression, public officials and organized tobacco farmers worked together to ensure that the government's regulatory muscle was more often deployed to promote tobacco than to protect the public from its harms. Even as evidence of the cigarette's connection to cancer grew, medical experts could not convince officials to change their stance. What turned the tide, Sarah Milov argues, was a new kind of politics: a movement for nonsmokers' rights.