Cigarette Advertising in Medical Journals

By the 1930s, cigarette advertisements were appearing regularly in medical journals, including the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA) and The New England Journal of Medicine in the U.S. and The Lancet and the British Medical Journal in the United Kingdom. Until 1953, JAMA accepted cigarette advertisements that encouraged physicians to recommend certain brands to their patients and that touted health benefits for filtered cigarettes and for brands with less nicotine. [The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society has over 50 complete issues of the Journal of the American Medical Association with cigarette advertisements from the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s, as well as complete issues of The New England Journal of Medicine, The Lancet, the Medical Journal of Australia, and other journals with cigarette ads.]