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    The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

  • Cartoonists Take Up Smoking

    Retracing the battles over smoking as seen through the eyes of the nation’s editorial cartoonists

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  • Covering Cancer?

    How magazines have promoted cancer research…and cigarettes

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  • Of Mice & Menthol

    A history of the targeting of African Americans by the tobacco industry

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  • Big Tobacco in the Big Apple

    How New York City became the heart of the tobacco industry…and anti-smoking activism  

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  • The unfiltered truth about smoking

    When the American Medical Association was in cahoots with the tobacco industry

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  • THE FIRST MEDICAL JOURNAL THEME ISSUES ON SMOKING


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Founded in 1999, the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society holds the largest collection of original documents, artifacts, ephemera, photographs, and news coverage of the tobacco industry, cigarette marketing, and anti-smoking activism from the 19th century to the present. Through online exhibitions, oral histories, and presentations, this vast and ironic resource explores historical and contemporary aspects of tobacco problems from all angles.

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Oral Histories

Myths and realities of the war on tobacco

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