Please choose a section:

• Opening remarks

1. How the tobacco industry gained its power

• Tobacco was woven into the fabric of U.S. life
• Cigarettes and World War II

2. Tobacco's adverse effects were revealed

• Science showed the destructive effects of smoking
• The Surgeon General's Reports on smoking
• How the tobacco industry hooked up its customers
• Advertisement of tobacco products on radio and TV
• Raising consciousness about the dangers of tobacco
• Addiction
• Passive smoking
• How smoking was banned from airplanes

3. The effort to curb the power of BIG TOBACCO

• The tobacco settlement
• How the settlement money is being misused
• The amoral strategy of BIG TOBACCO

4. Focus on the individual

• Overcoming addiction
• The constant drumbeat ceased when Dr. Koop left
• Public availability of insider documents changed policy
• The tobacco settlement (cont.)
• Final remarks

• Acknowledgements