Exhibitions
Curated from the Center’s Collection
Oral Histories
Myths and realities of the war on tobacco
Multimedia
Looking behind the scenes
Cigarette advertising featured prominently in most issues of these newsweeklies from their inception to the early-2000s. This made for numerous ironic juxtapositions of front cover stories on cancer and back cover advertisements for cigarettes…
This exhibit highlights the connections and illustrates the history of tobacco’s relationship with minority communities…
How New York City became the Heart of the Tobacco Industry…and Anti-Smoking activism.
Curated from the Center’s Collection
Myths and realities of the war on tobacco
Looking behind the scenes
This exhibition takes a trenchant look at the leading preventable cause of death and disease through the eyes of America’s newspaper editorial cartoonists. These artists satirize cigarette advertising, tobacco executives, politicians, and anti-smoking activists alike. After public health researchers began reporting on the devastating health effects of smoking in the 1930s, progress in reducing the terrible toll taken by cigarettes came about slowly because of foot-dragging by medical associations fearful of the tobacco industry’s political clout.
Exhibition debuts August 1, 2022
Created in Santa Fe, New Mexico in 1970, the Virginia Slims Tennis Circuit was a response to the underpayment of women athletes. It was also a marketing opportunity for cigarette maker Philip Morris…
Cigarette advertising featured prominently in most issues of these newsweeklies from their inception to the early-2000s. This made for numerous ironic juxtapositions of front cover stories on cancer and back cover advertisements for cigarettes…
This exhibit highlights the connections and illustrates the history of tobacco’s relationship with minority communities…
DOC (Doctors Ought to Care) was founded in 1977 by three family physicians with the aim of inspiring doctors, residents, medical students and other health professionals to play a role in public health efforts beyond their examining rooms and hospitals…
2018 marked the 100th anniversary of the end of World War I. This exhibition explores the important role tobacco played in the war, both in the battlefield trenches and on the home front. The seeds were also planted for a pandemic of smoking-caused diseases.
How New York City became the Heart of the Tobacco Industry…and Anti-Smoking activism.
As with lung cancer and emphysema, the dramatic rise in heart disease in the US paralleled the rise in cigarette smoking. Yet despite the early published evidence of the link between smoking and heart disease, the American Medical Association (AMA) and other health groups were reluctant to urge the public to give up their cigarettes….
Corporate sponsorship of the arts was pioneered by Philip Morris as a means of diverting attention from the medical evidence of cigarette smoking’s devastating death toll…
A guide to The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society’s exhibitions, collections, and other productions.
A guide to the Center’s exhibitions, collections and other productions.
Anti-Smoking Stamps from Around the World & The Surgeon General’s Stamp Campaign
For decades pharmaceutical manufacturers have employed stereotypical images of the inveterate smoker in advertisements for prescription medications in medical journals…
This collection is comprised of items relating to Dr. Alan Blum’s editorship of the Medical Journal of Australia (1982-1983) and the New York State Journal of Medicine (1983-1985), during which he produced the first three theme issues at any medical journal about the world cigarette pandemic…
Alan Blum, M.D. and Ransome Eke, M.D., Ph.D., MCHES are featured in the June 2021 edition of The Lancet.
“Confronting America’s Tobacco Pandemic,” was published by The Cancer Network in four parts during 2015 and 2016. Nearly all of the illustrations are from the CSTS collection…
The Center for Tobacco And Society’s Sports and Tobacco Exhibitions
Inspired by postmodern avant garde art, iconic ad campaigns to promote the brand Silk Cut sought to circumvent advertising regulations and made it the best-selling cigarette brand in the UK.
The July 11, 1691 issue of The Athenian Mercury is the oldest original publication in the Center’s collection….
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