Cigarettes: Anatomy of an Industry From Seed to Smoke

Despite being an industry under siege, tobacco remains one of the largest and most successful of American business enterprises, generating over $300 billion in sales annually. In Cigarettes, Tara Parker-Pope, a Wall Street Journal consumer products reporter, offers a fascinating look at how and why the tobacco industry has continued to thrive and flourish even as the health hazards have become commonly recognized. Not intended as a comprehensive industrial study, Cigarettes provides an encapsulated history of the industry including changes in the production and marketing of tobacco products. Full of interesting anecdotes and surprising statistics, this book gives the reader a greater understanding of the insidious role cigarettes have played in American culture and history.