Tobacco History
Collection of links to histories.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/
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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 d
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1621
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History Net- The History of Tobacco
Reprinting of the Tobacco Timeline.
http://historian.org/bysubject/tobacco1.htm
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The Tobacco Wars
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.
http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/tobacco_timeline1.html
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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.
http://smokingsides.com/docs/hist.html
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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
http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/tobac.html
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Tobacco Ads of the 1940s and 1950s
A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco marketing.
http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html
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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
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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://www.findarticles.com/cf_0/m1373/5_50/62087852/p1/article.jhtml
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1964 tobacco industry memo
The 1964 confidential memo on the U.S. tobacco industry, written by a team from the UK tobacco industry.
http://www.tobacco.neu.edu/Extra/1964memo.htm
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