Web Directory

» A Capsule History of Tobacco
   Tobacco Timeline; a concise timeline of key dates in tobacco history.
   http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History.html

» A Chronology of Tobacco in the Civilized World
   Outline of tobacco and tobacco industry history shows trends.
   http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/Tobacco-ChronologyJul98.htm

» 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/Patients/diseases/wh/c7/Pages/s5.aspx

» 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/studies/cu/CU26.html

» 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/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm

» 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

» History Net- The History of Tobacco
   Reprinting of the Tobacco Timeline.
   http://historian.org/bysubject/tobacco1.htm

» History of Tobacco Regulation
   From the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy; covers the 1600s through the mid 1970s.
   http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/nc/nc2b.htm

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

» 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.newash.org.uk/ash_xb2eta2q.htm

» 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-16-Tue-1999/news/12361546.html

» 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/313/7070/1450

» 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/

» 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 detrac
   http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1621

» The Quiet Victory of the Cigarette Lobby
   Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress.
   http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/smoking/drewf.htm

» 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

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

» Tobacco History
   Collection of links to histories.
   http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/

» 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

» 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=ft8489p25j&chunk.id=d0e1246