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Resources that provide significant description or analysis of tobacco history.

Resources in This Category

• Breed's Collection of Tobacco History Sites

  http://smokingsides.com/docs/hist.html
  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.

• Cigarettes and the 1964 Report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee

  http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/CU26.html
  From the 1972 Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs.

• George Seldes on Tobacco

  http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/tobac.html
  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.

• History Net- The History of Tobacco

  http://historian.org/bysubject/tobacco1.htm
  Reprinting of the Tobacco Timeline.

• History of Tobacco Regulation

  http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/nc/nc2b.htm
  From the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy; covers the 1600s through the mid 1970s.

• smoking and Disease: The Tobacco Industry's Earliest Responses

  http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft8489p25j&chunk.id=d0e1246
  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.

• The Anti-Tobacco Campaign of the Nazis

  http://www.bmj.com/content/313/7070/1450.full
  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.

• The Price of Coffins: Specious Arguments by Eeminent Doctors against the Dangers of Tobacco

  http://www.bmj.com/content/319/7225/1621.full
  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 Quiet Victory of the Cigarette Lobby

  http://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/1965/09/the-quiet-victory-of-the-cigarette-lobby-how-it-found-the-best-filter-yet-congress/304762/
  Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress.

• Tobacco Ads of the 1940s and 1950s

  http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html
  A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco marketing.

• Tobacco History

  http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/
  Collection of links to histories.

• Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles

  http://www.ucpress.edu/book.php?isbn=9780520222861
  Book on the California tobacco history from the 1970s on. book information, reviews, ordering information.

• Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles

  http://publishing.cdlib.org/ucpressebooks/view?docId=ft167nb0vq&brand=ucpress
  Complete, online book by Glantz and Birnbach provides over 30 years of experience gained in tobacco control in California.

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