Volume 43, Number 12 · July 11, 1996
How To Win the Tobacco War
By Michael Massing
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
by Richard Kluger
Knopf, 807 pp., $35.00
The Cigarette Papers
by Stanton A. Glantz, by John Slade, by Lisa A. Bero, by Peter Hanauer, by Deborah E. Barnes
University of California Press, 539 pp., $29.95
Smokescreen: The Truth Behind the Tobacco Industry Cover-up
by Philip J. Hilts
Addison-Wesley, 253 pp., $22.00
It is tempting to conclude from recent events that the tobacco industry's longtime invincibility has come to an end. The Food and Drug Administration, after nearly a century of inaction, is moving to regulate nicotine as a drug. The Justice Department is investigating whether industry executives committed perjury when they denied that tobacco is addictive. Many states have filed suits to recover medical expenditures related to smoking, and the Clinton administration is attempting to restrict sales to minors by such measures as blocking access to vending machines.
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