Where There's Smoke, There Are Tobacco Companies

Allan M. Brandt, professor of the history of medicine, Harvard Medical School

Some 100 million people died from tobacco-related diseases in the 20th century, a period that brought a deepened understanding of tobacco's health risks. But more people smoke now than ever before. In the 21st century, another one billion are likely to die from the same causes, Mr. Brandt reports in The Cigarette Century (Basic Books). That's just one of the sobering

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