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Science 4 May 2007:
Vol. 316. no. 5825, pp. 692 - 693
DOI: 10.1126/science.1140259
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PUBLIC HEALTH:
The Golden Weed, America's Most Deadly Drug

Robert N. Proctor

The Cigarette Century
The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America
by Allan M. Brandt
Basic Books, New York, 2007. 640 pp. $36, C$43.50. ISBN 9780465070473.
In this history of changing attitudes toward smoking, Brandt describes how the tobacco industry promoted "the most deadly addiction on the planet."
The reviewer is at the Department of History, Building 200, Stanford University, Stanford, CA 94305-2024, USA. E-mail: rproctor{at}stanford.edu

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