Presents a history of the tobacco industry, discussing how nicotine and tobacco affect the body, legal issues the industry has faced, and the use of e-cigarettes.

Through a series of unwanted promotions, Trevor Barnett has become the lead spokesman for the tobacco industry just as it's on the verge of extinction. Plaintiffs' attorneys have finally found the weakness they'd been searching for and have filed a $200 billion lawsuit that the industry will be unable to appeal. America's tobacco companies react by doing the unthinkable--they close their plants and recall their products from retailers' shelves. The...

This report presents the conclusions reached and recommendations made by the members of the WHO Study Group on Tobacco Product Regulation at its third meeting, during which it reviewed four background papers specially commissioned for the meeting and which dealt, respectively, with the following four themes. 1) the contents and design features of tobacco products: their relationship to dependence potential and consumer appeal; 2) Candy-flavoured tobacco...

Chronicles the tribulations and legendary excesses of the Reynolds tobacco family, from patriarch R.J. Reynolds, to his two playboy sons, Dick and Smith, down to Dick's children