Tobacco, USA: Industry Behind

By Eileen Heyes

The tobacco industry has long been among the most powerful in the United States. From the 1950s through the 1980s, while thousands of scientific studies showed cigarettes to be addictive and potentially lethal, tobacco executives insisted there was no proof their product was harmful. Bolstered by huge profits, cigarette companies continued to market aggressively, shout down health warnings, and pour money into lawmakers' campaign coffers to buy influence. Book jacket.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0761309748
• ISBN13: 9780761309741
• Release Date: January 1999
• Publisher: Twenty-First Century Books (CT)
• Length: 160 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 6.2" x 9.2"
• Age Range: 12 to 17 years
• Grade Range: Grades 7 to 12

Customer Reviews

Tobacco information for people of all ages.

This well-researched and well-written book gives a brief but complete history of tobacco---world-wide, but primarily in America. Though Ms Heyes is best known as a writer for young adults, she does not "write down" or condescend. People of all ages can---indeed should--- read this fascinating true story.