Big Tobacco in the Big Apple
How New York City Became the Heart of the Tobacco Industry
…and Anti Smoking Activism
William G. Cahan, MD
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Ed Anselm - Commentary
– William Cahan & Individual Advocacy Within Institutions
Drs. William Cahan, Alan Blum, and C. Everett Koop
Photograph, Smoke-Free America Awards reception, Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center
January 18, 1996
“Celebrating the Life of A Courageous American”
Newspaper advertisement honoring Dr. William Cahan
October 2001
“William G. Cahan, 87, Surgeon and Tobacco Foe, Dies”
Obituary by Thomas J. Lueck
The New York Times
October 9, 2001
“The Tisch Hospital Letters”
Correspondence between William Cahan, MD, and New York University (NYU) President John Brademas on the ethics of naming an NYU hospital after the head of a cigarette company
7 Days, page 9
July 12, 1989
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