title: Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
author:  Richard Kluger 
description: "A great battleship of a book - formidable, majestic...armed with anabundance of revealing information, guided with discerning literaryskill.... Mr. Kluger invites one to admire these moguls of tobacco theway one appreciates, say, Lenin - as brilliant strategists andresourceful technicians ...single-minded in their determination to satisfy [a mass want] and heedless of the human cost of their profit making." A behind-the-scenes history of an industry "whose structure, power, andgrowing vulnerability are so richly illuminated by this monumental andtimely book."<br /><br />-- The New York Times Book Review<br /><br /><span>"[<i>Ashes to Ashes</i></span> is] monumental...elegantlywritten.... It will probably be the definitive volume of the subject ofcigarettes in the 20th century."<br /><br />-- Time Magazine<br /><br />"Lively, entertaining, awesomely comprehensive.... The quality ofKluger's work astonishes throughout: He actually persuaded many toptobacco executives to talk with him.... Getting the kind of good stuffKluger pulls together is just about miraculous."<br /><br />-- The Washington Post
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  THE CIGARETTE
  
  
  A Political History
  
  
  > Sarah Milov
  
  
  
  
  
  > Cambridge, Massachusetts, and London, England • 2019
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Copyright © 2019 by the President and Fellows of Harvard College All rights
  reserved
  
  
  978-0-674-24121-3 (alk. paper) 978-0-674-24289-0 (EPUB)
  
  
  978-0-674-24290-6 (MOBI)
  
  
  978-0-674-24288-3 (PDF)
  
  
  The Library of Congress has cataloged the printed edition as follows: Names:
  Milov, Sarah, 1984– author.
  
  
  > Title: The cigarette : a political history / Sarah Milov.
  
  > Description: Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019. |
  > Includes bibliographical references and index.
  
  > Identifiers: LCCN 2019002275
  
  > Subjects: LCSH: Cigarettes—United States—History—20th century. | Tobacco
  > industry—United States—History—20th century. | Tobacco—United
  > States—History—20th century. | Smoking—Law and legislation—United
  > States—History—20th century.
  
  > Classification: LCC HD9149.C43 U663 2019 | DDC 338.4/76797309730904—dc23 LC
  > record ava