Smoke Ring. The Politics of Tobacco

London England: The Bodley Head. Hardback. First Edition. Slight foxing to end inside covers and edge. Very slight shelf wear to top edge of D/J. The 'Smoke Ring' is the ring of defences which has kept the power of the tobacco industry intact for the past twenty years in the face of evidence that its products have contributed to the deaths of millions of its consumers.The existence of this protective cricle of political and economic interests is the reason why governments have been reluctant to take effective action against the half-dozen multinational companies which control the industry. Based on a new research, inside information and over 100 interviews conducted in Europe, America and the Third World, this book is the most detailed and disturbing investigation ever conducted into the relationship beween governments and the tobacco industry. This book reveals in detail for the first time the stories of how a Biritsh Health Minister, committed to taking political action, was moved away from his department; how a famous editorial loine on smoking by one of its biggest advertisers; how the White House torpedoed recent anti-smoking legilsation because of commitments to tobacco farmers; how a complex series of corporate deails took the name of a cigarett to the Wimbledon finals; how tobacco's sharpest critic in the British arts establishment was succeeded by one of its greatest proponents; how the most powerful anti-smoking documentary ever made was killed in Britain and dramatically resurrected in America; and how a tobacco multination used its political contacts to establish itself in a poor Third World country. This book is bound to excite controversy and give fresh urgency to the debate about the conflict between Health and Wealth. Illustrated. 329 pp. (We carry a wide selection of titles in The Arts, Theology, History, Politics, Social and Physical Sciences. academic and scholarly books and Modern First Editions ,and all types of Academic Literature.) . Very Good. Cloth. First Edition. 1984.