Robert N Proctor: 2 books
Golden Holocaust
Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
Language: English
Release Date: February 28, 2012
The cigarette is the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization. It is also one of the most beguiling, thanks to more than a century of manipulation at the hands of tobacco industry chemists. In Golden Holocaust, Robert N. Proctor draws on reams of formerly-secret industry documents to...
Packaged Pleasures
How Technology and Marketing Revolutionized Desire
Language: English
Release Date: September 30, 2014
From the candy bar to the cigarette, records to roller coasters, a technological revolution during the last quarter of the nineteenth century precipitated a colossal shift in human consumption and sensual experience. Food, drink, and many other consumer goods came to be mass-produced, bottled, canned,...