Includes bibliographical references (p. 427-429) and index.

1. It's not about non-smokers versus smokers, smoking affects everyone -- 2. What's been done, what hasn't been done, and why it's in your interest to take simple, effortless actions to create change -- 3. Targeting our Achilles heel, the manipulative marketers of big tobacco -- 4. Masters of deceit -- 5. The global tobacco war : at home and around the world -- 6. "They got lips? We want 'em" : creating generations of addicts -- 7. The biology of tobacco addiction -- 8. Is Hollywood addicted? (... and if so, why?) -- 9. It's a matter of life and death -- 10. The buying of our political system -- 11. Smoking cessation -- 12. What you can do to stop the tobacco industry.

Every day, at least 1,241 Americans die before their time. They die painful, lingering deaths that could have been prevented. Every three days, as many citizens die from their own smoking habit, or from exposure to second-hand smoke, as died in the 9/11 tragedy. Each and every pack of cigarettes costs American taxpayers 40 in higher medical premiums, unavailability of health services, and other hidden financial drains. And every year, 925 out of every 1,000 smokers who try to quit on their own fail to stay smoke-free for a year-while hundreds of thousands of children become addicted to nicotine. Despite the Master Tobacco Settlement, the killing continues-and the settlement money is too often diverted away from smoking cessation programs and into the general budget. Distributed by Syndetic Solutions, Inc