This was a book that I was required to read for one of my classes for school. The class was essentially a business ethics course and we read the book in order to discuss the questionable ethical actions of the tobacco industry. The book is written by David Kessler who was the FDA commissioner from 1990-1997 and he describes how he and the FDA attempted to prove that tobacco products should be under the FDA’s jurisdiction. Our class discussions mostly focused around the ethical issues of manufacturing and marketing cigarettes which are known to cause cancer, manipulating the amount of nicotine in cigarettes so that the consumer becomes addicted, and the research performed by tobacco industry which was hidden under the protection of attorney-client privilege, was stopped when the results would cause harm to the industry, or required the scientists involved in the research to be prohibited to speak about the results.