Professor Robert Proctor is the Senior Scientific Reviewer for the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health

On January 16, 2014, Robert Proctor was invited to the White House to celebrate the release of the 50th Anniversary Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health.  Proctor, who served as a Senior Scientific Reviewer for the report, is cited over 30 times in the 1400-page volume, including his judgement that the cigarette is "a defective product, meaning not just dangerous but unreasonably dangerous, killing half its long term users.  And addictive by design."     http://www.surgeongeneral.gov/library/reports/50-years-of-progress/exec-summary.pdf     Proctor has been advising the U.S. Food and Drug Administration on how to design less deadly cigarettes, and on March 16th of this year lectured at the Centers for Disease Control in Atlanta on this topic.  In May he also keynoted a meeting of the Interagency Committee on Smoking and Health, the Washington, D.C., body responsible for coordinating federal tobacco research.  His book, Golden Holocaust:  Origins of the Cigarette Catastrophe and the Case for Abolition, has been translated into French, and for a brief time in March became the 42nd best-selling book on Amazon.fr.  He is hoping to train more graduate students in how to use the online archives of the tobacco industry, which still harbor many unexplored secrets.  His new book on "Packaged Pleasures" will appear with the University of Chicago Press in the Fall.