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Top: Health: Specific_Substances: Tobacco: History:
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» 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.
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» The Cigarette Papers - Showcases the contrast between the tobacco industry's private knowledge and its public statements over the past 50 years.
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» Dry Drunk - 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.
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» 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.
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» History Today: Smoking Gun - Matthew Hilton examines the mystique surrounding tobacco, the history of tobacco industry, government and consumer actions on smoking in the UK.
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» Interview with Richard Peto - 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.
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» John Rolfe - Information on the life of Virginia tobacco founder John Rolfe.
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» RCP Report - 40 Fatal Years - 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.
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» The Tobacco Wars - Provides a capsule history of tobacco, from 1492 to 1988. Where did the tobacco industry come from, and when and how did the existence of tobacco turn into the selling and promotion of tobacco? Includes answers.
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» 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." (December 18, 1999)
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