Big Tobacco in the Big Apple
How New York City Became the Heart of the Tobacco Industry
…and Anti Smoking Activism
Early Anti-Smoking Efforts
Doctor Waterhouse’s Lecture on the Evil Tendency of Tobacco and the Pernicious Effects of Ardent and Vinous Spirits on Young Persons
Booklet, front cover
Benjamin Waterhouse, MD
Cambridge, MA: Harvard University Press
1805
A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
Booklet, front cover
A.McAllister, MD
Boston, MA: Peirce & Parker
1832
The Use of Tobacco and The Evils, Physical, Mental, Moral, and Social, Resulting Therefrom [1 of 2]
Booklet, front cover
John H. Griscom, MD
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam & Son
1868
The Use of Tobacco and The Evils, Physical, Mental, Moral, and Social, Resulting Therefrom [2 of 2]
Booklet, title page
John H. Griscom, MD
New York, NY: G. P. Putnam & Son
1868
An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco Upon Life and Health [1 of 2]
Booklet, front cover
R.D. Mussey, MD
Boston, MA: Perkins & Marvin
1836
An Essay on the Influence of Tobacco Upon Life and Health [2 of 2]
Title Page, front cover
R.D. Mussey, MD
Boston, MA: Perkins & Marvin
1836
By the mid-19th century, temperance organizations such as the American Anti-Tobacco Society, the Consolidated Anti-Cigarette League, and The Women’s Christian Temperance Union campaigned against smoking. Pillars of American industry Henry Ford and Thomas Edison pledged to refuse to hire men who smoked (unless no others were available), and Ford published illustrated tracts on the dangers of smoking. School children were encouraged to sign anti-tobacco pledges. You can learn more about Anti-Smoking efforts and tobacco advertising aimed at youth in our exhibit Kids Candy and Cigarettes
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