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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. |
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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. |
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History Today: Smoking Gun - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4706/is_200005/ai_n17269293
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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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. |
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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. |
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The Tobacco Wars - http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/tobacco_timeline1.html
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 - http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1621
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." |
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John Rolfe - http://www.apva.org/history/jrolfe.html
Information on the life of Virginia tobacco founder John Rolfe. |
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RCP Report - 40 Fatal Years - http://www.newash.org.uk/ash_xb2eta2q.htm
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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Brief Use of Tobacco Use and Abuse - http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/Patients/diseases/wh/c7/Pages/s5.aspx
An account of the development of the use of the drug in the western world. |