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Resources that provide significant description or analysis of tobacco history.
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Tobacco Ads of the 1940s and 1950s - A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco marketing. Tobacco History - Collection of links to histories. History Net- The History of Tobacco - Reprinting of the Tobacco Timeline. George Seldes on Tobacco - 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. Cigarettes and the 1964 Report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee - From the 1972 Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs. History of Tobacco Regulation - From the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy; covers the 1600s through the mid 1970s. Breed's Collection of Tobacco History Sites - A history of tobacco and tobacco control, with bibliography and links to related sites on its history, impact in literature and popular media, old advertisements, and similar items. Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles - Book on the California tobacco history from the 1970s on. book information, reviews, ordering information. Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles - Complete, online book by Glantz and Birnbach provides over 30 years of experience gained in tobacco control in California. The Quiet Victory of the Cigarette Lobby - Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress. The Price of Coffins: Specious Arguments by Eeminent Doctors against the Dangers of Tobacco - 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." The Anti-Tobacco Campaign of the Nazis - 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. smoking and Disease: The Tobacco Industry's Earliest Responses - 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.
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