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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.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4706/is...

John Rolfe
Information on the life of Virginia tobacco founder John Rolfe.
http://www.apva.org/history/jrolfe.html

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.
http://texts.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft8489p25...

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.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print...

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.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/313...

The truth is, anti-smoking ads work
Article from the Palm Beach Post covers the use of paid media by the industry and by anti-smoking campaigns.
http://no-smoking.org/march99/03-30-99-1.html

The Cigarette Papers
Showcases the contrast between the tobacco industry's private knowledge and its public statements over the past 50 years.
http://tobaccowall.ucsf.edu/

History of Tobacco Regulation
From the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy; covers the 1600s through the mid 1970s.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/stu...

Scientist's Story Hurt Tobacco Industry
Dr. Victor DeNoble, a former senior scientist at Philip Morris, tells his story.
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1999/Nov...

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.
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview...

Tobacco Lawyers and the Case For Cover-up Reform
Column on legal affairs reviews history of tobacco industry and its lawyers.
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor20...

Cigarettes and the 1964 Report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee
From the 1972 Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/stu...

Brief Use of Tobacco Use and Abuse
An account of the development of the use of the drug in the western world.
http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/education/tobac...

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.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft167nb0vq/

A Chronology of Tobacco in the Civilized World
Outline of tobacco and tobacco industry history shows trends.
http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/Tobacco-Chron...

A Capsule History of Tobacco
Tobacco Timeline; extensive yet concise timeline of key dates in tobacco history.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacc...

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.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/policy/rcp40threport...

Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles
Book on the California tobacco history from the 1970s on. book information, reviews, ordering information.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8861.html

Tobacco Ads of the 1940s and 1950s
A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco marketing.
http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html

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

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