Book Review Ashes to Ashes, Richard Kluger, Vintage Books, 1997. 807 Pp. $35.00

• Pages: 68
• Citation: Vol. 73 Pg. 68
• Publication year: 2021

Connecticut Bar Journal Volume 73.

73 CBJ 68. BOOK REVIEW ASHES TO ASHES, RICHARD KLUGER, VINTAGE BOOKS, 1997. 807 Pp. $35.00

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BOOK REVIEW ASHES TO ASHES, RICHARD KLUGER, VINTAGE BOOKS 1997. 807 Pp. $35.00

Author Richard Kluger's Pulitzer Prize winning study of the cigarette industry is packed tight with details. It took Kluger some 6-1/2 years to research and write this book, and the result is outstanding.

While the author's anti-cigarette bias is obvious, the duplicity and subterfuge of the cigarette industry cannot be ignored. Kluger points out how tobacco industries' research and development funds were aimed at disproving the health hazards of cigarettes, and that decisions were made to cut off funding and research projects where preliminary results pointed to toboacco or cigarette smoke and disease. Research was always supported which sought to link lung cancer with nonsmoking toxins within the environment. The author uncovered the attempts by the cigarette giants to discredit and humiliate any scientists who dare to publish research supporting the link between...