california talking with stanford professors adult their riding in joining us now is professor robert proctor from the history and science in stanford in this is his most recent book, "golden holocaust" origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition" professor proctor when were cigarettes invented? >> the party take it is essential. a kid be either nicotine delivery device which they go back to the small cigar, or tobacco wrapped in paper in which case it begins in spain in the 17th century with people in spain rolling tobacco scrap into old newspapers but then in an 18th-century with the middle east they've run out of pipe tobacco so they start rolling tobacco is an old ammunition pieces of paper to smoke that. it is me in the 19th century phenomenon. the has grown really big in the 1860's then explodes with the invention of mechanize rolling of tobacco wear instead of having a limited role cigarettes you could have 500 per day now all the sudden they have 100,000. as a result you have a program of basically having disposed of a massive serb plus that are produced in such a

joining us now is professor robert proctor. he is a professor of the hit tree of science at stanford. this is his most recent book. "golden holocost." professor, when were cigarettes invented? >> it depends on how you look at this as essential. cigarette can be thought of as a nicotine delivery device we can think of it as a small cigar in which case they go even further back or you can talk about tobacco wrapped in paper, in which it begins really in spain in the 17th century with people in seville, spain, and then it doesn't really do much until the middle east runs out of pipe tobacco and they start rolling tobacco and ammunition pieces of paper. so it's mainly a 19th century phenomenon. this includes the rolling of tobacco. where instead of having these girls and women roll cigarettes, that they could roll 200 or 500 per day, suddenly these machines, they could roll 100 of them per day and you have to dispose of a massive amount of cigarette and such an enormous quantity it becomes attend of a price of massmarketing. >> how

. >> professor robert proctor you have some ads here is the lucky strikes at do you inhale? >> people don't realize prior to cigarettes especially with tyrtaeus -- turkish tobacco it was not inhaled and almost no long cancer prior to 1900 but only 142 cases of lung cancer known worldwide because tobacco smoke was not in pale but just in the united states alone we have 150,000 lung cancer deaths per year by far the most important cancer. these lung cancer epidemics her almost entirely the result of the making of cigarette's design to be inhaled that is why i consider the cigarette not to be inherently dangerous but dangerous by design. it is designed to be addictive why they keep nicotine and manipulated levels, designed to be inhalable and that is because of the low ph of the smoke but that creates the lung cancer so it is not inherently dangerous but it is by design. >> host: are dangerous -- cigarettes were dangerous with a filter? >> they make them slightly more dangerous although they have the same hazard. for a couple of reasons they are more dangerous. the filter reduc

. >> host: booktv on c-span2 talking to professor robert proctor from stanford university from history and science professor his book "golden holocaust" origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition" >> host: "in excellent health" setting the record straight on america's health care" the author dr. scott atlas but also a senior fellow here at the hoover institution at stanford what works about the american health care system when you looked at in the larger sense? >> that could take up the entire interview but what works rarely is what the book is about which is the actual medical care and availability or access as well as implementation or introduction of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of diseases. in fact,, a lot of the impetus was to clarify the background information that people don't really have despite what has been said about the u.s. health care system and the bottom line is with both access and quality of care. >> host: cost? >> it is an issue in well-documented and i concur with the documentation that the u.s. is the most expensive system for health ca

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robert proctor sat down with book tv at stanford university to talk about his book, golden holocaust on the history of the tobacco industry and the dangers associated with smoking cigarettes. this is part of the book tv college series and is a little under half an hour. ..

robert proctor on tobacco's history and the continuing dangers of smoking, sunday night at 10:00 eastern, part of book tv this weekend on c-span two. -- c-span2. senator graham's allegations that former secretary of state clinton mishandled the situation in benghazi, libya. they also took questions on the talking points used by un ambassador susan rice after the attacks. here is what he had to say. >> in advance of today's hearing on benghazi, senator lindsey graham said, i think the dam is about to break on den -- on benghazi. we will find people asleep at the switch, including hillary killington -- hillary clinton. what do you say about that? i say a couple of things. this administration has made extraordinary efforts to work with five different congressional committees investigating what happened before, during, and after the benghazi attacks, including over the past eight months, testifying in 10 congressional hearings, holding 20 staff briefings, and providing over 25,000 pages of documents. another leading senate republican said he feels he knows what happened in benghazi and is ba

robert proctor on tobacco's history and the continuing dangers of smoking tonight at 10:00 eastern, partof ooktv this weekend on c-span2. wednesday,on last wi queen elizabeth travel to parliament. here is a brief look at some of the ceremony. have received the signal. a great view. right down to the house of laws. he makes his way of through this short stretch of corridor. this is where he was spreading to me earlier on -- describing to me early on of the precise nature of the duty wars and what it symbolized. he takes great pride in his role in the this is a great sovereignty of the commons. his daily work is to look after very important areas of securities in his part of the southwestern area. a little delay. i am told that we may be slightly ahead of schedule. this is very unusual. he makes his way straight down to the house of commons. i suspect because it is a little longer than they should have done. blackrock will not appreciate the latest. there we are. he is on his way. he is on his way. confronted to be with closed doors. >> mr. speaker, at the queen tomands this honorable hous