Proctor wrote that Huff "was paid to testify before Congress in the 1950s and then again in the 1960s, with the assigned task of ridiculing any notion of a cigarette-disease link. One of his biggest projects was a prize-winning home in Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, where he lived until his death. As a freelancer, Huff produced hundreds of "How to" feature articles and wrote at least sixteen books, most of which concerned household projects. Before turning to full-time writing in 1946, Huff served as editor of Better Homes and Gardens and Liberty magazine. Huff was born in Gowrie, Iowa, and educated at the University of Iowa, (BA 1938, MA 1939). Darrell Huff (July 15, 1913 – June 27, 2001) was an American writer, and is best known as the author of How to Lie with Statistics (1954), the best-selling statistics book of the second half of the twentieth century, and for his use of statistics as a tobacco lobbyist.
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