Ending the Tobacco Holocaust: How the Tobacco Industry Affects Your Health, Pocketbook and Political Freedomand What You Can Do

by Michael Rabinoff

Book Overview

Shows the health and financial suicide we commit by allowing tobacco companies to continue doing business as usual and provides actions that can be taken to save the lives of millions around the... This description may be from another edition of this product.

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1600700195
• ISBN13: 9781600700194
• Release Date: January 2007
• Publisher: Elite Books
• Length: 452 Pages
• Weight: 1.35 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.3" x 9.0"

Customer Reviews

Big Tobacco Slam!

Ending the Tobacco Holocaust gives people who are tired of their friends' preventable deaths the most recent tobacco research and then gives practical ideas on how to stop the efforts of Big Tobacco. When one or two babies die from lead poisoning, there are immediate product recalls. However, 1200 people needlessly die every day from a using a product that, when used exactly as directed, kills people! We need to be enraged enough to do something to stop this! I particularly liked that the author gave personal stories because those 1200 people who died today can no longer tell their stories about their addiction to tobacco. This is a must read for any tobacco activist!

Reader

I appreciated this reader-friendly book on how smoking affects us all. This is the definitive book on smoking where you can find a wealth of information in one place. It is informative about the toxic chemicals added to cigarettes, the deceitful marketing tactics of the tobacco industry; the health hazards of smoking to the smoker, the non-smoker and even to our pets and important methods for smoking cessation. I also found the personal stories scattered throughout the book to be very compelling. I recommend this book to anyone who wants to stop needless suffering.

A critical shift in perspective

While those who smoke are acutely aware that what they're doing isn't healthy, denial runs strong in this, and any, addiction. My experience tells me that a major factor in this denial is shame. Dr. Rabinoff's book evoked in me not shame, but rather anger as I became aware once again of the carefully choreographed effort by tobacco companies to continue to line thier overstuffed pockets with no regard to the human consequence. Let's face it, this is an emotional issue for all concerned (except apparently the tobacco companies who seem devoid of the capacity to feel any emotion at all), and emotion feels to me to be a much more effective motivation to quit than fear or shame. This book has awakened in me an anger that has caused me to look at my own nicotine addiciton in a much different way, to direct my attention not at beating myself up, but rather at exercising my own personal freedom from corporate manipulation and greed. That's a significant shift, and a shift which, it is my hope, will change the course of my life.

Big tobacco's nightmare

Dr. Rabinoff has written shocking, mind-numbing book about the insidious intrusion of a multi-billion dollar industry into our lives, intent on addicting us to a product that slowly kills. It is a hard book to read because the carnage is so overwhelming. Over 400,000 people in America die each year due to the effects of smoking! And yet this addiction has been so carefully ingrained into our culture, that almost no one cares. Except, for sure, Dr. Rabinoff. It's a book to be taken in small doses, maybe one chapter a day. If you're a non-smoker you become fearful and outraged over the effects of second-hand smoke. To see the picture of a little toddler smoking in China is revolting. So it is a hard book to read. But we are sometimes a society in denial, and I recommend you read this book.

Great.

Thoroughly comprehensive, readable, not just the usual screed, but packed with astonishing details (Kent cigarettes used filters made out of asbestos -- and touted the health benefits?!?!) and lots of interesting sidebars. Wonderful book to add to the arsenal against this modern epidemic. For smokers and non-smokers alike.