Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
College of Community Health Sciences | University of Alabama
2019
“Museum Malignancy: Tobacco Sponsorship of the Arts”
Corporate sponsorship of dance troupes, opera companies, concert tours, film festivals, and art exhibitions at leading museums and libraries was pioneered in the 1950s by Philip Morris, the manufacturer of the fastest growing cigarette in America, Marlboro, as a means of diverting attention from…
2019
“The Unfiltered Truth About Smoking: The American Medical Association Rewrites Tobacco History”
This exhibition explores the corrupting influence of the tobacco industry in the pages of the Journal of the American Medical Association, as well as the decades-long complicity of the AMA with the tobacco industry to ignore or deflect concerns over the adverse health consequences of cigarette smoking.
2018
From 1914 to 1918, the great empires of Europe clashed in a global conflict that involved more than 70 million soldiers and cost over 16 million lives. Tobacco also went to war, packed in every doughboy’s knapsack. Through patriotic advertising and stepped-up production, cigarettes would supplant cigars…
2018
“Of Mice & Menthol: Minorities & Smoking”
Quick, what color is menthol?
No, it’s not green. Menthol is a colorless anesthetic, like Lidocaine that the dentist uses to mask pain. Accidentally discovered by a young man, Lloyd “Spud” Hughes, in the 1920s to reduce the harshness of smoking after he’d stored his cigarettes…
2018
In the first two decades of the 20th century, cigarette smoking became one of the great unifying elements of society. Movies were becoming the top entertainment medium, and on the screen people from every walk of life were enjoying cigarettes.
Tobacco companies soon enlisted the top movie stars…
2013
“Fighting Smoke with Fire: A Commemorative Exhibition on Alabamian Dr. Luther Terry and the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health”
2010
“Alabama’s Dr. Luther Terry and the Publication of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking”
2004
40th Anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health Commemorative Exhibit
1997
“The Unfiltered Truth About Smoking and Health: AMA Rewrites Tobacco History”
