University Libraries Promotion and Tenure Recognition

Joshua E. Muscat professor of public health sciences

Book Title: The Cigarette Century

Author: Allan M. Brandt

Selection Statement:

This book exemplifies how courageous individuals in medicine, goverment and the law faced and overcame deceptive and unethical practices in business that attempted to suppress, misinterpret or manipulate scientific findings on smoking. The work of these relatively unknown heroes has saved and will continue to save scores of people from smoking-related illnesses.


Year: 2007