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 A Capsule History of Tobacco [Recommended] Description: Tobacco Timeline; extensive yet concise timeline of key dates in tobacco history. (tobacco.org) |
| Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles [Recommended] Description: Complete, online book by Glantz and Birnbach provides over 30 years of experience gained in tobacco control in California. (ark.cdlib.org) |
| 1964 tobacco industry memo Description: The 1964 confidential memo on the U.S. tobacco industry, written by a team from the UK tobacco industry. (tobacco.neu.edu) |
| A Chronology of Tobacco in the Civilized World Description: Outline of tobacco and tobacco industry history shows trends. (mindfully.org) |
| Breed's Collection of Tobacco History Sites Description: An annotated bibliography of websites with information on the history of tobacco. (smokingsides.com) |
| Brief Use of Tobacco Use and Abuse Description: An account of the development of the use of the drug in the western world. (wramc.amedd.army.mil) |
| Cigarettes and the 1964 Report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee Description: From the 1972 Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs. (druglibrary.org) |
| Dry Drunk Description: Exploration of the culture of tobacco in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. From the New York Public Library, and based on an exhibit held there in 1997. (nypl.org) |
| George Seldes on Tobacco Description: The scientific studies on the health effects of tobacco go back to 1938, but few papers were running stories about it: their leading advertisers were the tobacco companies. George Seldes (1890-1995) was an exception; a set of his tobacco stories from 1940 to 1950 is reprinted here. (brasscheck.com) |
| History Net- The History of Tobacco Description: Reprinting of the Tobacco Timeline. (historian.org) |
| History of Tobacco Regulation Description: From the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy; covers the 1600s through the mid 1970s. (druglibrary.org) |
| History Today: Smoking Gun Description: Matthew Hilton examines the mystique surrounding tobacco, the history of tobacco industry, government and consumer actions on smoking in the UK. (findarticles.com) |
| Interview with Richard Peto Description: Richard Peto was one of the first to realize that tobacco products were killing their customers; interview covers the discovery, public health and public policy, and the sheer size of tobacco death. (newscientist.com) |
| RCP Report - 40 Fatal Years Description: A Review of the 40 years since the publication of the 1962 Report of the Royal College of Physicians on Smoking and Health (UK). The original publication is presented along with some analysis on what happened since. (ash.org.uk) |
| Scientist's Story Hurt Tobacco Industry Description: Dr. Victor DeNoble, a former senior scientist at Philip Morris, tells his story. (reviewjournal.com) |
| smoking and Disease: The Tobacco Industry's Earliest Responses Description: Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents how the tobacco industry responded in the 1950s and 1960s to the emerging medical evidence about the product. (library.ucsf.edu) |
| The Anti-Tobacco Campaign of the Nazis Description: Report about anti-tobacco public health program in Germany from 1933-45, supported by Nazi medical and military leaders as part of their concern for racial and bodily purity. (bmj.bmjjournals.com) |
| The Cigarette Papers Description: Showcases the contrast between the tobacco industry's private knowledge and its public statements over the past 50 years. (tobaccowall.ucsf.edu) |
| The Price of Coffins: Specious Arguments by Eeminent Doctors against the Dangers of Tobacco Description: Letter to the British medical Journal reviews some tobacco, medical, and public policy history: "good evidence showed that smoking causes lung cancer; the media's response to this information was initially resistant; specious arguments were used to detract from the real issue, which confused the general public and lessened its concern; after 40 years there has been little change in smoking rates." (bmj.com) |
| The Quiet Victory of the Cigarette Lobby Description: Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress. (theatlantic.com) |
| The Tobacco Epidemic: Historical Lessons Description: Essay surveys the history and effects of tobacco use. (health20-20.org) |
| The Tobacco Wars Description: Colorful web site provides a capsule history of tobacco, from 1492 to 1988. Where did the tobacco industry as we know it come from, and when and how did the existence of tobacco turn into the selling and promotion of tobacco? This site has answers. (bsd.mojones.com) |
| The truth is, anti-smoking ads work Description: Article from the Palm Beach Post covers the use of paid media by the industry and by anti-smoking campaigns. (no-smoking.org) |
| Tobacco Ads of the 1940s and 1950s Description: A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco marketing. (chickenhead.com) |
| Tobacco and Health Description: Journal article explores "deception on a grand scale": the history of tobacco and smoking before and after the emergence of the modern tobacco industry. (psljournal.com) |
| Tobacco History Description: Collection of links to histories. (tobacco.org) |
| Tobacco Lawyers and the Case For Cover-up Reform Description: Column on legal affairs reviews history of tobacco industry and its lawyers. (theatlantic.com) |
| Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles Description: Book on the California tobacco history from the 1970s on. book information, reviews, ordering information. (ucpress.edu) |
| Tobacco's Big Lie Description: Former President and Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter surveys tobacco history, and concludes that the tobacco industry cannot be trusted. (cartercenter.org) |
