Smoke and mirrors [videorecording] : a history of denial / directed by Torrie Rosenzweig ; produced, written, and researched by Torrie Rosenzweig and Elise Pearlstein.
Format:
[videorecording] :
Publisher:
Pyramid Media,
Copyright Date:
2000?, c1999
Description:
1 videocassette (75 min.) : sd., col. with b&w sequences ; 1/2 in.
"Produced ... for the American Lung Association"--Container.
Summary:
Documents the rise of the U.S. tobacco industry beginning with the development of mass-produced cigarettes in the late 1800s. Describes tobacco companies' increasingly sophisticated marketing efforts, which attempted to ignore and suppress the accumulating evidence of the harmful effects of smoking on health. Also discusses the implications for the future of the tobacco industry when this attempted deception became public knowledge.
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