A Capsule History of Tobacco «
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History.html | | Tobacco timeline; extensive yet concise timeline of key dates in tobacco history. |
A Chronology of Tobacco in the Civilized World «
http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/Tobacco-ChronologyJul98.htm | | Outline of tobacco and tobacco industry history shows trends. |
Brief Use of Tobacco Use and Abuse «
http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/education/tobaccohistory.htm | | An account of the development of the use of the drug in the western world. |
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. |
Dry Drunk «
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm | | 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. |
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 |
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. |
Interview with Richard Peto «
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23065 | | 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. |
John Rolfe «
http://www.apva.org/history/jrolfe.html | | Information on the life of virginia tobacco founder john rolfe. |
RCP Report - 40 Fatal Years «
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/policy/rcp40threport.html | | 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. |
Scientist's Story Hurt Tobacco Industry «
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1999/Nov-16-Tue-1999/news/12361546.html | | Dr. victor denoble , a former senior scientist at philip morris , tells his story. |
smoking and Disease: The Tobacco Industry's Earliest Responses «
http://texts.cdlib.org/xtf/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://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/313/7070/1450 | | 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 Cigarette Papers «
http://tobaccowall.ucsf.edu/ | | Showcases the contrast between the tobacco industry's private knowledge and its public statements over the past 50 years. |
