Quotes from Robert N. Proctor

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.

turned smoking from a marginal indulgence of questionable morality to an unobjectionable mark of stalwart manhood.

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.

Tobacco is not like wine but is rather more like smallpox or heroin.