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You light a cigarette while brushing your teeth in the morning, and you go to sleep with a fresh butt smoldering in the ashtray on your nightstand. Your teeth are yellow, your skin is green, your hair is gray, and your fingertips are the color of worn leather. Your saliva tastes like ash and iron. You get winded when you walk a block. Your veins are gooey with plaque. Your voice is a measly croak, and the poison in your lungs has triggered a cancer infestation. Your doctor says you’ll be dead at 35 from a sickness so ugly you’d rather drown than live with it.
The tobacco industry suckers tons of people into paying for their own demise, and the government is complicit. Find out all about the evils of manufactured death when Robert N. Proctor, author of Golden Holocaust: Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, reads at the University of Miami’s Storer Auditorium (5250 University Dr., Coral Gables) at 7 p.m. Thursday. Admission is free. Call 305-442-4408 or visit booksandbooks.com
Thu., Sept. 11, 7 p.m., 2014
