Smoke Screens: The Truth About Tobacco
Genre: non-fiction
Book length: 309 pages
Synopsis: "Smoke Screens: The Truth About Tobacco" takes an objective
look at the claims that tobacco smoke causes disease, both in smokers
and those exposed to second hand smoke. The book looks at the studies
used to show a link between smoking and illness and looks at the
history of the researchers involved to see what their motivations were
for their results. "Smoke Screens: The Truth About Tobacco" does not
look at unreleased studies, nor does it focus on studies showing
smoking to be harmless. Instead, it looks at the studies that show
smoking is a dangerous habit and determines how convincing they really
are. From Sir Richard Doll to the Surgeon General, it is all here.
"Smoke Screens: The Truth About Tobacco" also looks at the argument
that passive smoke is harmful, and why it is in the interests of both
the government and the powerful pharmaceutical company to have a ban.
"Smoke Screens: The Truth
About Tobacco" is the culmination of years of research into tobacco
consumption. The book explores everything from the scientific links between
smoking and illness to smoking trends between the social classes. It also
examines fundamental issues such as detection bias and answers the pertinent
question of ‘Why was there a surge in lung cancer rates in the 1930s?’
The book delves into
the interests of the pharmaceutical industry and the cancer research
organizations to determine whether they have vested interests in the ostracisation
of smokers and, if so, where those interests lay. Including extracts from a
variety of Surgeon General Reports and an anti-smoking magazine from 1917, "Smoke Screens: The Truth About Tobacco" leaves no stone unturned and provides
an encyclopedic view into one of the largest issues in society today.
About
the author: Richard White is a student at Canterbury Christ
Church University in Kent, Southeast England, and has qualifications in
Psychology and Sociology. He is an independent researcher and "Smoke
Screens..." comes after years of research on health and smoking. He has
no ties whatsoever to the tobacco industry.
Website: www.smokescreens.org
Contact details:
email: richwhite@smokescreens.org
phone: 07575 953 847
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