On Friday, March 29, 2013, Dr. Robert Proctor spoke to the Johns Hopkins community about cigarettes or "the deadliest artifact in the history of human civilization," and the cause for their abolition.
Dr. Proctor recently published "Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition" (2011), and much of his research and writings focus on the history of scientific controversy, expert witnessing, tobacco duplicity, and the history of ignorance. Proctor was the first historian to testify against the tobacco industry as an expert witness (in 1998), and continues to serve as a witness in the U.S. and abroad.
