The smoke ring / Peter Taylor

Public ISBD Titre : The smoke ring : tobacco, money & multinational politics Type de document : texte imprimé Auteurs : Peter Taylor, Auteur Editeur : Sphere Books Limited Année de publication : 1985 Importance : 360 p Présentation : 04.02.TAY Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Entreprises multinationales Tags : Industrie du tabac  Sociétés transnationales  Grande Bretagne Index. décimale : 04.02 Entreprises Résumé : Tobacco was listed as a drug in the 1890 edition of the US Pharmacopeia, the official compendium of drug standards for the United States, but was dropped from the 1905 edition and never reappeared. According to political legend, tobacco was banished from the pages of the Pharmacopeia in exchange for the votes of tobacco state congressmen for the original Food and Drug Act.1 Eighty years later, in the words of Peter Taylor, "the [tobacco] problem remains political." Taylor is a British investigative journalist with five film documentaries on the smoking issue to his credit. The best known of these is Death in the West, which featured interviews with six real cowboys in the American West dying of lung cancer or emphysema. After its first showing on British television in 1976, the Philip Morris tobacco company filed an injunction, and the film was locked in a vault under court order. The smoke ring : tobacco, money & multinational politics [texte imprimé] / Peter Taylor, Auteur . - [S.l.] : Sphere Books Limited, 1985 . - 360 p : 04.02.TAY. Langues : Anglais (eng) Catégories : Entreprises multinationales Tags : Industrie du tabac  Sociétés transnationales  Grande Bretagne Index. décimale : 04.02 Entreprises Résumé : Tobacco was listed as a drug in the 1890 edition of the US Pharmacopeia, the official compendium of drug standards for the United States, but was dropped from the 1905 edition and never reappeared. According to political legend, tobacco was banished from the pages of the Pharmacopeia in exchange for the votes of tobacco state congressmen for the original Food and Drug Act.1 Eighty years later, in the words of Peter Taylor, "the [tobacco] problem remains political." Taylor is a British investigative journalist with five film documentaries on the smoking issue to his credit. The best known of these is Death in the West, which featured interviews with six real cowboys in the American West dying of lung cancer or emphysema. After its first showing on British television in 1976, the Philip Morris tobacco company filed an injunction, and the film was locked in a vault under court order.

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