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Author
Publisher
Crown
Pub. Date
[2021]
Language
English
Description
"Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this corporate exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided-and the vaping epidemic was born. Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris's parent company, and a veteran of the industry's long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his company-the e-cigarette, a product with all the addictive...
Author
Publisher
H. Holt
Pub. Date
1998.
Language
English
Description
In New Orleans, the widow of an attorney who died of lung cancer vowed to avenge his death by suing the tobacco companies. In Clarksdale, Mississippi, an outraged country lawyer discovered the cost of lung cancer care as his secretary's mother lay dying. In Washington, D.C., a young pediatrician became the first FDA administrator in ninety years to decide nicotine should be regulated as a drug. All three were warned: Don't mess with Big Tobacco.
Then...
Author
Publisher
The University of Chicago Press
Pub. Date
2018.
Language
English
Description
Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the economy and delivers modernity--for good or ill--to the rest of the world. With Cigarettes, Inc., Nan Enstad upends this story, revealing the myriad cross-cultural encounters that produced corporate life before World War II. In this startling account of innovation and expansion, Enstad uncovers a corporate network...
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Series
Publisher
Distributed by Warner Home Video
Pub. Date
2009.
Language
English
Description
Brant Royle buys and sells tobacco, building a cigarette manufacturing empire, but his empire is starting to crumble. He is romantically drawn to the daughter of the tycoon who had earlier brought ruin to his family, and she may have an agenda of her own.
Author
Publisher
Allen Lane Canada
Pub. Date
2022.
Language
English
Description
"Mad Men meets Bad Blood in this addictive, behind-the-scenes globe-trotting narrative of moral ambiguity, law, public policy, and big tobacco. "Given everything the lawyer knew up to that point about smoking, as far as he could tell, cigarettes shouldn't even have been available as a mass market product..."It's the start of the new millennium and a young lawyer is recruited to work for an unnamed multinational company. It isn't until his second interview...
Publisher
Virgil Films
Pub. Date
[2016]
Language
English
Description
In the 1980s, Victor DeNoble was a research scientist at Philip Morris, a major tobacco company, where he was charged with the tasked of finding a substitute for nicotine in cigarettes that would not pose the risk of heart attack. In the process, DeNoble uncovered what the company had been hiding for years: that nicotine is addictive.
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