Cigarettes: the only consumer product that kills half its loyal customers when used exactly as intended. Yet somehow, for over a century, they’ve been marketed with charm, sophistication, cowboy hats, and cartoon camels. What gives?

Big Tobacco Versus the World is a wry, sharp-eyed look at how a global industry managed to hook billions, bury the evidence, and keep the profits rolling while the bodies piled up. It’s a tale of manipulation, addiction, denial, and the people fighting back with facts, lawsuits, and a lot more stamina than a chain-smoker’s lungs.

This book uncovers:

• The staggering health harms of smoking—including diseases you've heard of and a few you probably wish you hadn’t
• Why quitting isn't just about having willpower (hint: it involves brain chemistry and marketing budgets bigger than most countries)
• How the tobacco industry targeted kids, women, the poor, and even doctors (yes, doctors)
• Passive smoking, third-hand smoke, and how to smell like an ashtray without ever lighting up
• The environmental mayhem: from pesticide-soaked farms to cigarette butt tsunamis
• Vaping: miracle cure, sneaky rebrand, or both?
• The global resistance—from grassroots activists to governments who finally grew a spine

With plenty of bite and no whitewashing, this book skewers the myths (filters make it safer!), dissects the spin (smoking is a choice!), and asks why we still let corporations peddle poison with a smile.

Packed with history, science, scandal, and the occasional gasp of disbelief, Big Tobacco Versus the World is part exposé, part survival guide, and part black comedy. It’s ideal for anyone who wants to understand how we got here—and how to finally kick Big Tobacco in the ash.

Warning: Contains dangerous ideas and traces of sarcasm. May cause temporary outrage, increased lung capacity, and a desire to speak truth to power.

Parents: If you’ve ever wondered how to protect your kids from a billion-dollar industry with no moral compass, start here.
Policymakers: If you’ve ever drafted health policy while lobbyists whispered in your ear, read this before you write the next paragraph.
Teenagers: If you think smoking makes you look cool, so did the people with tracheotomy scars in those government ads.
Former smokers: Congratulations on quitting. Now here’s the behind-the-scenes story you never got from your cigarette pack.

Whatever your reason, this book might just make you laugh, rage, and finally say: Not on my watch.