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Acknowledgments First and foremost, I would like to thank Dr. Paul Magnus, Medical Associate at the National Office of Heart Research in Australia, for his encouragement and cdticismmand for providing access to his extensive research materials on smoking and health. Dr, Magnus is one of a very small number of individuals who have focused in depth on the magnitude of the health chaos caused by cigarettes and are dedicated to speaking out • about it. Thanks are due to Cathy Becker Popescu, Research Associate at the American Council on Science and Health, for the sometimes tedious library research for this work and for her major contribution to the chap- ters of this book dealing with litigation, nonsmokers' fights, the economic impact of cigarette smoking, and the tragedy of cigarettes in the Third World. Lee Francis and Cheryl Martin helped greatly with their research and typing efforts. And Dr. Stephen Barrett did a superb job of editing the manuscript on his legendary IBM word processor. I am also indebted to Federal Trade Commissioner Michael Pertshuk; William Rothbard, FTC Attorney Advisor;, John M. Pinney, President of John M. Pinney Associates and former Director of the U.S. Office of Smoking and Health; Donald Shopland, Technical Information Officer for the U.S. Office of Smoking and Health; John Banzhaf, Executive Director of Action on Smoking and Health; Elizabeth Fayad, Associate Director of the Coalition for Smoking or Health; Matt Myers, StaffDirec- tot of the Coalition for Smoking or Health; Dr. Marvin Kristein, Con- maltant in Health Economies at the American Health Foundation; Steve Wieckert, Legislative Aide to Congressman Thomas Petri; Dr. Mike Daub, Department of Community Medicine, Edinburgh University;, and A. Lee Fritschler, Director of the Advanced Study Program at the Brook- ings Institution and author of Smoking and Politics. , A special acknowledgment is due to Martha Lindsey, who typed the many drafts of this book and became committed to the need to alert Americans to the health disaster called the cigarette. Finally, I heap thanks and praise on my husband Steve Whelan who read each draft of this book, and to my 6-year-old daughter Christine who patiently awaited my emergence from the "writing room" during the