“The great cause of global health is in Robert Proctor's debt. Golden Holocaust is a model of
impassioned scholarly research and advocacy. As Proctor so powerfully demonstrates, the
time has come to hold the tobacco industry accountable for the massive disease, debility,
and death that they produce around the world.”--Allan M. Brandt, author of The Cigarette
Century" Robert Proctor unpacks the sad history of an industrial fraud. His tightly reasoned
exploration touches on all topics on which the tobacco makers lied repeatedly to Congress …

Robert Proctor is an American historian and the author of Cancer Wars and The Nazi War on
Cancer. In the latter book, published in 1999, he discussed pioneering research in the Third
Reich on the connection between smoking and lung cancer and the strong Nazi emphasis
on antismoking policies, a precursor of the wider focus on antismoking postwar. Prior to
Proctor's work, the Nazi interest in antismoking had been discussed in the UK by historically
minded epidemiologists writing in the Journal of Epidemiology and Community Health in …