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Presents an introduction, new laws and increased taxes for the tobacco industry and smoking and how it affects everyone.

'Addressing the many serious and controversial questions related to smoking in the United States, Tobacco Industry and Smoking is a useful guide through the various issues related to this complex topic. It provides information on the history of tobacco use and an examination of the legal issues related to cigarette smoking, including laws banning smoking in public bars and restaurants, as well as the responsibilities of cigarette makers. Striving to be objective, this new Library in a Book volume provides students and general readers with the resources necessary to define, understand, and research one of the most contentious topics in the United States today.'

Around-the-clock tobacco talks, multibillion-dollar lawsuits against the major cigarette companies, and legislative wrangling over how much to tax a pack of cigarettes—these are some of the most recent episodes in the war against the tobacco companies. The Cigarette Papers shows what started it all: revelations that tobacco companies had long known the grave dangers of smoking, and did nothing about it.In May 1994 a box containing 4,000 pages of internal tobacco industry documents arrived at the office of Professor Stanton Glantz at the University of California, San Francisco. The anonymous source of these'cigarette papers'was identified only as'Mr. Butts.'These documents provide a shocking inside account of the activities of one tobacco company, Brown & Williamson, over more than thirty years. Quoting extensively from the documents themselves and analyzing what they reveal, The Cigarette Papers shows what the tobacco companies have known and galvanizes us to take action.