Abstract
Many of us, as we grew up, were exposed to information about the dangers of smoking. I remember how appalled I was upon readiny a Reader's Digest article, "What the Cigarette Ads Don't Show," when I was a child. We wonder what insane compulsion causes people to begin and continue a practice whose lethal consequences have been amply proven. Is it really just due to the collective stupidity of smokers? Larry White's devastating examination of the practices of the major American tobacco companies reveals that a great burden of guilt for tobacco use, and the deaths caused by it, lies with these companies. Here is an exposee in the best tradition, not only of sinister business practices but of the helplessness of our legislative and judicial systems to cope with them.