Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip MorrisAshes to Ashes is a monumental history of the American tobacco industrys ironic success in developing the cigarette, modern societys most widespread instrument of self destruction, into the nations most profitable consumer product. Starting with its energized, work obsessed royal families, the Dukes and the Reynolds, and their embattled successors like the eccentric autocrat George Washington Hill and the feisty Joseph F. Cullman, the book vividly