In 2007, Alan Brandt published his book The Cigarette Century, The Rise, Fall, and Deadly Persistence of the Product That Defined America. "From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking became so deeply implanted in our culture, science, policy, and law. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness."

What product now rules the collective consciousness, or more accurately, the collective unconscious, enabled by tobacco science and tobacco scientists?

At the center of the story is the seemingly innocuous meter that measures premise consumption of electricity for billing purposes.

Scrutiny of the safety science underlying "smart meters" is now before decision makers in Rhode Island and Massachusetts, as well as the European Court of Human Rights.

The stakes are high: extending to the unexamined tsunami of wireless products and exposures across the age span, from the unborn to the elderly and/or infirm, with infrastructure also impacting every species and all of nature. Society is drunk on wireless.