Twenty-Five Years of Activism
1977-2002
1986
Article on DOC’s cigarette ad parodies
Tobacco & Youth Reporter
Published by STAT (Stop Teenage Access to Tobacco)
1986
“In New York: Dr. Blum asked to leave journal post”
Article
American Medical News
February 1, 1986
“Smoking…It doesn’t seem natural”
Billboard counter-advertisement by student Nikki Butler,
Delaware DOC SuperHealth Poster Contest Winner
1986
Comments on the American Academy of Family Physicians, Surgeon General C. Everett Koop, and Denver DOC’s “Tar Wars” poster contest
Audio
Alan Blum, MD
August 10, 2015
“The Anti Smoking Guerrillas”
Cover story by Charles Kenney
Boston Globe Magazine
May 11, 1986
Documents
Selling Cigarettes: The Blue-Collar, Black Target
Article by Alan Blum, MD
The Washington Post
May 18, 1986
Great Tobacco Ad Ban Debate, Parts I & II
Cover essay by Alan Blum, MD
The Quill, published by the Society of Professional Journalists
December, 1986
The Tobacco Wars
Article by Charles Kenney
Boston Globe Magazine
May 11, 1986
Outstanding Scientific Exhibit Award
Certificate
American Academy of Family Physicians
1986
Tobacco as a Form of Drug Abuse
Letter by Alan Blum, MD to President, Ronald Reagan
September 12, 1986
Doctored Radio Ad Fools Public
Article about Tony Schwartz’s and DOC’s paid arti-smoking ads on New York City radio station WMCA in Tobacco Observer, newspaper of The Tobacco Institute
January, 1986
Tournament Scoffs at Smoking
Article on DOC’s Emphysema Slims Tennis Tournament
Beeper
March 25, 1986
“Dear _____, I’m sorry that I cannot vote for you anymore because I have died.”
DOC’s anti-smoking obituary postcard campaign
1986
“Doctors Use Obituaries to Fight Tobacco Lobby”
Article by Howard Wolinsky
Chicago Sun-Times
December 6, 1986
“Dear ______, I wish to inform you that one of your constituents, who was a patient of mine, has died.”
DOC’s antismoking obituary postcard campaign
1986
DOC Essay Contest
“Both Sides in Cigarette Fight Hold National Essay Contests”
Article about DOC’s and Northeastern University School of Law’s national essay contest for law students: “Should tobacco company executives be held criminally responsible for the deaths, diseases, and fires that their products cause?”
The New York Times
November 5, 1986
“Essay Contest Touches Off Ethics Contest”
Article by Bruce Horowitz
Los Angeles Times
December 23, 1986
DOC Newsletters
DOC News & Views
National DOC newsletter launched by Medical College of Georgia DOC
Winter, 1986
DOC News & Views
National DOC newsletter
Fall, 1986