Like a big relief, you know, its been 10 years in the work to make this book and so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to be able to talk about it, to talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. Really a page turner. Outland, the great medical scientific historian on the cigarette century. Robert proctor at stanford about the deception of the industry. Any trepidation when you started . You had three giant box out there, and you took a risk. Guest yes, but but i really feel as though with those three books, ashes to ashes, cigarette century and Robert Proctor whole corpus of work, the biggest of which is called golden holocaust, i i really feel as though i was standing on the shoulders of giants. These are fantastic works and my work is tremendously indebted to them, but when i was thinking about writing about tobacco, i wasnt approaching the same way that they were. They were very much coming at the story of tobacco from the angle of industry and when i be
Country want to talk about that and more all right its time to boost your news i q. Opec and their allied Oil Producers held a Virtual Meeting today seeking an agreement on Oil Production cuts in response to a slowdown triggered by the coronavirus pandemic but can all the key players make a deal that will actually last r. T. S. Rachel blevins has been following this story and the high level meetings taking place shes joining us now from the news room with more of the details so rachel whats going on while manila the price war between russia and saudi arabia appears to have reached a cease fire as 2 of the Worlds Largest oil producer seem to have reached a Historic Deal on thursday now this according to reports that saudi arabia agreed to remove 4000000 barrels of oil. A day from its april production levels while russia has agreed to cut 2000000 barrels a day the deal was made during a Virtual Meeting between opec members and other alloy Oil Producers amid a need to respond to the drop
Food supplies well tell you whats being done about it all right its time to boost your news i. Like run a virus continues to plague new york hitting some of the poorest working class areas the hardest thousands of low paid workers forced to work to make ends meet as they remain on the front lines and now there are reports that dozens of transit workers have lost their lives due to the virus and new research now indicating that the states outbreak actually originated in Europe Trinity chavez has the report. Today the coronavirus continue. Going to take a dramatic toll on new york its like a battlefield behind your house the number of corona virus cases and now more than 150000 with more than 7000 deaths. The virus having the biggest impact on some of new york citys poorest areas the disparities that have plagued this city this nation that are all about fundamental inequality are once again causing such pain. And causing people innocent people to lose their lives its just abundantly clea
New total to a staggering 17000000 filing for benefits due to the mass layoffs in the nation well tell you all about that and more coming up all right its time to boost your use i q. A little rotavirus is everywhere around the world but so is hunger take a look at this you are looking at about 800. 00 cars just outside of pittsburgh waiting in line for hours to pick up just a weeks worth of food at their local Food Bank People are struggling and now the food banks that are there to help them are struggling too heres arties ferran from south with more of that story fare in the middle of that video of all those cars lined up some of those people were actually waiting for almost 4 hours to reach just the front of the line when they finally got there the food was out and thats pretty sad right now because many of those people it was also their 1st time ever going to the. Food bank now what youre seeing here is the start of a massive domino effect that slimming down on these food banks now
Guest host interviewing top nonfiction authors about the latest work. All after words programs are available as podcasts. Congratulations. Thank you. Your book is a major accompaniment. It is a significant scholarly work and i think its fair to say that you move the seal. Thats a tremendous good to hear from you. Thank you so much. How does it feel . Like a big relief. Its been ten years and the work to make this book and so it feels like a relief and its just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and talk about other interesting people. Three Major Writers spent their career studying, writing about tobacco and the cigarette and Richard Kruger one the prize its a page turner. Allen brand is late great historian on the cigarette century and Robert Proctor about the deception of the industry and any trepidation when you started that you had three nearly giant books that are out there and you took a risk. Yes, but i really feel as though with those three books, ashes to ashes an