Text accompanying The Marlboro Journal of Medicine cartoon in The Birmingham News, September 23, 2007:

“The University of Alabama and Tuscaloosa’s DCH Regional Medical Center co-sponsored a special emphasis week on cancer prevention recently, moderated by distinguished UA alumnus Dr. Charles LeMaistre, a member of the committee that wrote the landmark 1964 Surgeon General’s Report, ‘Smoking and Health.’ LeMaistre and other speakers reminded audiences that cigarettes remain by far the leading preventable cause of cancer deaths and that Alabama’s high prevalence of men who smoke (29.5 percent) is exceeded only by Kentucky. The ink had not yet dried on the news coverage of the UA Cancer Prevention series when Philip Morris USA. America’s largest cigarette manufacturer (and the maker of top-selling Marlboro), was welcomed back to campus by the UA Career Center for its fall 2007 job fair. None of the more than 80 other employers at the Sept. 19 event received as prominent visibility as Philip Morris, which also hosted the hospitality suite and plied hundreds of students with free food, tote bags, phone cards, radios, leather binders and other gifts. Dr. Alan Blum, professor of family medicine and director of the UA Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, worked with Portland, Ore., cartoonist Matt Bors to file this taste of today’s campus career fairs.”

Text accompanying The Marlboro Journal of Medicine cartoon in The Birmingham News, June 24, 2006:

“A bill before Congress would let the Food and Drug Administration regulate tobacco products but not permit it to ban the sale or promotion of cigarettes. The bill is likely to come up for a committee vote in the Senate in July. Dr. Alan Blum, director of the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, testified against the bill at the committee’s hearing earlier this year. Blum worked with cartoonist Matt Bors of Portland, Ore., to shed light on the bill’s glaring inconsistencies and the strange bedfellows who are supporting it.”