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Thank You for Smoking
by
Christopher Buckley
Christopher Buckley's satirical gift
shines in this hilarious look at the ironies of "personal freedom" and the
unbearable smugness of political correctness. Bracing in its cynicism, Thank
You for Smoking is a delightful meander off the beaten path of mainstream
American ethics. And despite his hypertension-inducing, slander-splattered,
morally bankrupt behavior--which leads one Larry King listener to describe him
as "lower than whale crap"--you'll find yourself rooting for smoking's mass
enabler. --Rebekah Warren |
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Silencing Science
by Michael
Gough, Steven J. Milloy
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Slow Burn : The Great American Antismoking Scam
(And Why It Will Fail)
by Don Oakley
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For Your Own Good : The Anti-Smoking Crusade and
the Tyranny of Public Health
by Jacob Sullum
In this controversial book, Jacob Sullum demolishes the leading
claims of the antismoking movement; their assertions have been advanced, he
says, because the movement's principals would like the government to take
control of the tobacco industry. Have you heard that secondhand smoke is bad
for you? "There is no evidence that casual exposure to secondhand smoke has any
impact on your life expectancy," writes Sullum, a drug policy expert and senior
editor at Reason magazine. The debate over smoking is really more about the
nature of liberty--how should a society restrict the choices of its
members?--than it is about public health. |
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Does Advertising Increase Smoking?: Economics,
Free Speech and Advertising Bans
by Hugh High
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The People Vs. Big Tobacco : How the States Took
on the Cigarette Giants
by Carrick Mollenkamp (Editor),
Adam Levy, Joseph Menn (Editor), Jeffrey Rothfeder (Editor)
The People Vs. Big Tobacco: How the States Took on the
Cigarette Giants is a blow-by-blow account of how the "Mother of All Lawsuits"
was eventually settled, who the major players were, and what the settlement
actually means for the future of Big Tobacco. |
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Cornered : Big Tobacco at the Bar of
Justice
by Peter Pringle
There are many
threads to be pulled together, and Peter Pringle pulls them nicely....
Cornered, in its meticulous explanation, is finally an illustration of what's
wrong with using the courts--or a regulatory agency, for that matter--to
resolve a social mess. |
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The Nazi War on Cancer
by
Robert N. Proctor
Familiar as we are with the horrific
history of Nazi medicine and science, it may come as a surprise to learn that
the Nazi war against cancer was the most aggressive in the world. Robert N.
Proctor's thought-provoking book, The Nazi War on Cancer recounts this
little-known story. The Nazis were very concerned about protecting the health
of the "Volk." Cancer was seen as a growing threat--and perhaps even held a
special place in Adolf Hitler's imagination (his mother, Klara, died from
breast cancer in 1907). The Nazi doctors fought their war against cancer on
many fronts, battling environmental and workplace hazards (restrictions on the
use of asbestos) and recommending food standards (bans on carcinogenic
pesticides and food dyes) and early detection ("men were advised to get their
colons checked as often as they would check the engines of their
cars..."). |
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Cancer Scam : Diversion of Federal Cancer Funds to
Politics
by James T. Bennett, Thomas J. Dilorenzo
According to James T. Bennett and Thomas J. DiLorenzo, authors
of Cancerscam, smoking can be good for society, if not for the smoker. Consider
all the money the government could save, for instance, on social security if
millions of people die young from smoking-related illnesses. Much of Bennett
and DiLorenzo's book is taken up with their argument that the government's
campaign against smoking is intrusive and unwarranted. They liken smoking to
other hazardous choices such as skydiving or skateboarding and point out that
there is no national campaign to educate practitioners of these activities.
They then launch into an attack on the National Cancer Institute and the
American Cancer Society, which they accuse of diverting funds into an
antismoking program run by a left-wing public interest organization. Cigarette
manufacturers and major stockholders in tobacco companies will love this book;
those who deal with the medical, social, and personal fall-out from smoking, on
the other hand, will find little to agree with here. |
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