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Access through your institution Buy or subscribe THE CIGARETTE CENTURY: THE RISE, FALL, AND DEADLY PERSISTENCE OF THE PRODUCT THAT DEFINED AMERICA * _Allan M Brandt_ Basic Books, 2007 600


pp., hardcover, $36.00 0465070477 | ISBN: 0-465-07047-7 Why didn't scientists know that cigarettes cause cancer until the 1950s? Why did governments wait until 1964 to agree? Why was


nicotine's addictive power not recognized until the 1980s? Allan Brandt, a medical historian, addresses these and other questions as he describes the interactions between cigarette


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support AUTHOR INFORMATION AUTHORS AND AFFILIATIONS * Henry A. Lester is Bren Professor of Biology in the Division of Biology, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California


Boulevard, Pasadena, California 91125-2900, USA. [email protected], Henry A. Lester Authors * Henry A. Lester View author publications You can also search for this author inPubMed Google


Scholar ETHICS DECLARATIONS COMPETING INTERESTS H.A.L. has received research funding from the California Tobacco-Related Disease Research Program, the US National Institute on Drug Abuse and


the Philip Morris External Research Program. He also has a research collaboration with Taracept, Inc. RIGHTS AND PERMISSIONS Reprints and permissions ABOUT THIS ARTICLE CITE THIS ARTICLE


Lester, H. Cigarettes: down but not out. _Nat Med_ 14, 11 (2008). https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0108-11 Download citation * Issue Date: January 2008 * DOI: https://doi.org/10.1038/nm0108-11


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