Robert Proctor
Author, "Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition" (University of California Press, 2012)
Professor, History of Science
Stanford University
Stanford, California

Sep. 07, 2012

Seeing Through the Smoke -- The Secrets in a Cigarette

Many cigarettes are only two-thirds tobacco, and contain hundreds of additives, such as antifreeze, cocoa shells, and liquorice.

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