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“An important aspect of an epistemology of ignorance is the realization that ignorance should not be theorized as a simple omission or passive gap but is, in many cases, an active production.”
― Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
― Agnotology: The Making and Unmaking of Ignorance
“Tobacco is not like wine but is rather more like smallpox or heroin.”
― Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
― Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
“The total value of all goods shipped to Europe from 1947 through 1951 was about $13 billion, about $1 billion of which was tobacco. Nearly a third (!) of all “food-related” funding in the plan went for tobacco.”
― Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
― Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
“turned smoking from a marginal indulgence of questionable morality to an unobjectionable mark of stalwart manhood.”
― Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition
― Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition




