Author | Richard Kluger |
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Publisher | Alfred A. Knopf |
Publication date | 1996 |
Pages | 807 |
ISBN | 0-394-57076-6 |
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, written by Richard Kluger and published by Alfred A. Knopf in 1996, [1] won the 1997 Pulitzer Prize for General Non-Fiction. [2] It is a detailed account of the American tobacco industry, focusing particularly on the Philip Morris tobacco company. [3]
The book took Kluger seven years to research and write.
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