Sweet Disease [antikvár]

Foreword by Gary Null, PhD.Nearly a century ago, the tobacco industry initiated a brilliant campaign of deception against the American people and the worldwide public. They were able to enlist the American Medical Association and its journal to run ads suggesting that cigarette smoking was in fact good for you, stating it would soothe your throat and calm your nerves. Big Tobacco's propaganda had infiltrated society to such an extent that even the majority of physicians smoked cigarettes.For fifty years the tobacco industry's disinformation campaign was wildly successful. Tens of millions of Americans from my parents' generation smoked one to three packs a day from the 1920s to the 1970s. I grew up in a home where everyone smoked, as did my aunts and uncles. It would not be untilVII