pt. 1. The triumph of the cigarette. The flue-curing revolution
Matches and mechanization
War likes tobacco, tobacco likes war
Taxation: the second addiction
Marketing genius unleashed
Sponsoring sports to sell smoke
Parties, the arts, and extreme expeditions
Clouding the Web: tobacco 2.0
pt. 2. Discovering the cancer hazard. Early experimental carcinogenesis
Roffo's foray and the Nazi response
"Sold American": tobacco-friendly research at the Medical College of Virginia
A most feared document : Claude E. Teague's 1953 "Survey of Cancer Research"
"Silent collaborators": clandestine cancer research financed by tobacco via the Damon Runyon Fund
Ecusta's experiments
Consensus, hubris, and duplicity
pt. 3. Conspiracy on a grand scale. The Council for Tobacco Research: distraction research, decoy research, filibuster research
Agnotology in action
Measuring ignorance: the impact of industry disinformation on popular knowledge of tobacco hazards
Filter flimflam
The grand fraud of ventilation
Crack nicotine: freebasing to augment a cigarette's "kick"
The "light cigarette" scam
Penetrating the universities
Historians join the conspiracy
pt. 4. Radiant filth and redemption. What's actually in your cigarette?
Radioactivity in cigarette smoke: "three mile Marlboro" and the sleeping giant
The odd business of butts
and the global warming wild card
"Safer" cigarettes?
Globalizing death
What must be done
Lexicon of tobacco industry jargon
Timeline of global tobacco mergers and acquisitions
Timeline of tobacco industry diversification into candy, food, alcohol, and other products.