Is the cigarette the world’s deadliest invention? Historian of science Robert Proctor, outspoken critic of the tobacco industry and author of Golden Holocaust, discusses how cigarettes shaped the 20th century and stand to leave an even greater trail of destruction in the 21st. Part of the Big Picture Ideas: The Best of Against the Grain Collection.

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