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>> host: "in excellent health" setting the record straight on america's health care" the author dr. scott atlas but also a senior fellow here at the hoover institution at stanford what works about the american health care system when you looked at in the larger sense? >> that could take up the entire interview but what works rarely is what the book is about which is the actual medical care and availability or access as well as implementation or introduction of diagnostic and therapeutic treatment of diseases. in fact,, a lot of the impetus was to clarify the background information th...

>> in which case it begins ince stayed in the 17th century with people in state rolling tobacco scrap into old newspapers and it doesn't do much until the 19th century when in the middle east to run out of pipe tobacco they start rolling tobacco with old ammunition and start to smoke that but made the 19th century phenomenon is going really big in the 1850's and '60s and explodes with the mechanized rolling of tobacco instead of rolling cigarettes they could roll 500 per day suddenly they could roll 100,000 per day. and as a result of a get this program to dispose of the massive surp...

>> host: on location at stanford university powell alto california talking with stanford professors adult their riding in joining us now is professor robert proctor from the history and science in stanford in this is his most recent book, "golden holocaust" origins of the cigarette catastrophe and the case for abolition" professor proctor when were cigarettes invented? >> the party take it is essential. a kid be either nicotine delivery device which they go back to the small cigar, or tobacco wrapped in paper in which case it begins in spain in the 17th century with people in spain ...

this is part of the booktv college series and is a little under half an hour. >> you're watching booktv on c-span2. we are on location at stanford university in palo alto, california, where we are talking with some stanford professors about their writings. joining us now is professor robert proctor. he is a professor of the hit tree of science at stanford. this is his most recent book. "golden holocost." professor, when were cigarettes invented? >> it depends on how you look at this as essential. cigarette can be thought of as a nicotine delivery device we can think of it as a small ...

>> what were they doing with their time? >> they were interviewing witnesses that they could find and meet with in tripoli, and they were also engaging with the government in order to develop a cooperative investigation with the libyans, who sent an investigator to benghazi. >> were you interviewed by the fbi? >> i was never interviewed by the fbi. >> never? nice story. i yield back my time. >> we now go to the gentleman from nevada. >> thank you, mr. chairman. thank you to our witnesses for being here. it is my understanding that we have had nine oversight hearings on the benghazi -...