Congratulations. Your book is a major accomplishment. It is a significant scholarly work. I think its fair to say you rule the field. Thank you thats tremendous hearing that coming from you. Thank you so much. How does it feel . A big relief it was ten years in the works to make the book and is just a pleasure to be able to talk about it with you and tons of other interesting people. The three major rivalries spent their careers studying writing about the cigarette from Richard Kruger the Pulitzer Prize ashes to ashes. An amazing book it is a page turner. The great medical scientific historian and and Robert Proctor at stanford for industry any trepidation and you took a risk i feel as though those books ashes to ashes and the biggest of which is called golden holocaust i felt like i was standing on the shoulders of giants indebted to them but when i was thinking about writing about tobacco i wasnt approaching at the same way that was from industry and when i began this project as a Li