Volume 54, Number 12 · July 19, 2007
Getting Away With Murder
By Helen Epstein
The Cigarette Century: The Rise, Fall and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
by Allan M. Brandt
Basic Books, 600 pp., $36.00
Since cigarette smoking is so deadly, and this is so well known, why do more than one in five American adults still do it? Why did my mother, a former editor of this magazine who died of lung cancer last year, do it? Why did I do it as a teenager?
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