Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
College of Community Health Sciences | University of Alabama
Website Guide
This page features a curated list of exhibitions, collections, and more from the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society.
EXHIBITIONS
“Big Tobacco in the Big Apple: How New York City Became the Home of the Tobacco Industry…and Anti-Smoking Activism” (2018, updated 2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/btba/
“Museum Malignancy: Tobacco Industry Sponsorship of the Arts” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/museum/
“Silk Cut: Surrealism as Subversion” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/silk-cut
“Sports + Tobacco = A Losing Team” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/sports/
- “Touchdown Tobacco” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/sports/football/ - “Baseball & Tobacco” (2018)
https://csts.ua.edu/sports/baseball
“‘FAULT!’ Tennis, Tobacco, and Virginia Slims” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/tennis/
“The Unfiltered Truth About Smoking: The AMA Rewrites Tobacco History” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/ama/
“DOC (Doctors Ought to Care) Timeline” (2022)
https://csts.ua.edu/doc
- “Del Doc: Delaware Doctors Ought to Care” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/doc/del/
“The Makin’s of a Nation: Tobacco and World War I” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/wwi/
“Smoking in the Balcony Only: When Movie Stars Sold Cigarettes” (2018)
https://csts.ua.edu/smoking-in-the-balcony-only/
“Of Mice and Menthol: The Targeting of African Americans by the Tobacco Industry” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/minorities/
“Cartoonists take Up Smoking” (originally exhibited in 8 cities, 2004-2008; digitized, 2020- 2022)
https://csts.ua.edu/cartoons/
“Stamping Out Smoking: Anti-Smoking Postage Stamps from Around the World” (2009, updated 2018)
https://csts.ua.edu/stamps/
“Tobacco Heart: Cigarette Smoking and Cardiovascular Health” (2022)
https://csts.ua.edu/heart
“Covering Cancer? How magazines promoted cancer research…and cigarettes” (2022)
https://csts.ua.edu/covers
“Cigars: An illustrious history…with horrifying health consequences for many” [in progress, 2022]
“Cigarette Ad Role Models: Stories of Tragedy and Regret” (2022)
https://csts.ua.edu/models/
“’Mild As May’: How Tobacco Companies Sold Women a Pack of Lies” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/women/
“Digital Media Addiction: Zombie Apocalypse or a Generation in Denial?” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/dma/
“The Surgeon General vs. The Marlboro Man: Who Really Won?” (2013, digitized 2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/sg-v-mm/
“Here’s a Pack of Get Well Wishes: Smoking-themed Greeting Cards” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/greetings/
“Kids, Candy, and Cigarettes” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/kids
“Confronting America’s Smoking Pandemic: A US Tobacco History Timeline in Four Parts” (2016-17, updated 2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/timeline/
“Like Father, Like Son: Smoking as a Family Tradition” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/fathers/
“When More Doctors Smoked Camels: Medical Claims in Cigarette Advertisements 1888-1988” (1988, digitized 2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/exhibitions/1988-camels/
CURIOSITIES
Individual pages highlighting a unique item or topic from the Center’s collection.
“SIEMENS: The global technology company that makes MRIs, other advanced healthcare equipment, and some of the world’s fastest cigarette-making machines” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/ones/siemens/
“Safer Cigarettes in the 21st Century: Contemporary Health Claims of ‘Safer Cigarettes’” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/safercigs/
“A Filter Made of Tobacco Itself” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/tobacco-filter/
“Five Medical Ashtrays” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/ashtrays/
“The ‘JAMA’ Ashtray, Dan Delmonico & The United States Military Ashtray Museum” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/multimedia/oral-histories/jama-ashtray-dan-delmonico/
“Camel Artists Packs” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/camel-artists-packs/
“Tanning Bedlam” (2014, digitized 2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/tanning-bedlam/
“Stan Sawyer, Salem Cigarettes, & ‘Space Hoppers’” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/jet/
“Surgeon General C. Everett Koop” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/koop/
“Celebrating Rick Richards, MD” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/richards/
“’You’ve Coughed Up Long Enough, Baby: A Century of Cigarettes for Women”
https://csts.ua.edu/long-way/
“Depictions of Smoking in Pharmaceutical Advertising” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/pharmad/
COLLECTIONS
A sampler of highlights from the Center’s collection.
“Merry X-Ray and a Happy New Lung: When Santa Sold Cigarettes” (2001, digitized 2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/santa/
“Up in Smoke: The Airline Flight Attendants’ Fight to End Smoking Aloft” (originally toured to 4 cities in 2003-2005, digitized 2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/airlines
“DOC’s Deck-O-Butts Trading Cards” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/deck-o-butts/
“Alabama Tobacco Headlines Collection” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/collections/alabama-state-headlines/
“Medical Journal Editorship Collection of Alan Blum, MD” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/collections/medical-journal-editorship/
“Cigarette, Soda, Candy, and Other Incongruous Product Advertising in The Journal of the American Medical Association, 1910-1960” (in progress, 2022)
https://csts.ua.edu/collections/jama-ads/
“Lorillard’s KENT Micronite Filter…with Asbestos” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/micronite/
“CSTS Smokeless Tobacco Collection” (2018)
https://csts.ua.edu/smokeless/
“Wedded to Smoking: Brides and Newlyweds in Cigarette Advertising” (2018)
https://csts.ua.edu/wedded/
“Collages of Items in the CSTS Collection” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/collages/
ANNUAL REPORTS
Annual Report 2020-2021
https://csts.ua.edu/about-csts/2020-21-annual-report/
Annual Report 2019-2020
https://csts.ua.edu/about-csts/2018-19-annual-report/
Annual Report 2018-2019
https://csts.ua.edu/about-csts/2018-19-annual-report/
Annual Report 2017-2018
https://csts.ua.edu/about-csts/2017-18-annual-report/
History of CSTS on the Web
https://csts.ua.edu/web-history/
Internships at The Center For The Study Of Tobacco And Society
https://csts.ua.edu/intern
Corrections
https://csts.ua.edu/corrections/
ORIGINAL FILMS
Documentary films and videos produced by the Center.
“Puff Your Cares Away…Smoking on the Silver Screen” (2018) 28 Minutes
https://csts.ua.edu/smoking-in-the-balcony-only/smoking-in-the-balcony-only-puff-your-cares-away/
“Blowing Smoke: The Lost Legacy of the Surgeon General’s Report” (2013) 23 Minutes
https://csts.ua.edu/multimedia/csts-videos/blowing-smoke/
“The Athenian Mercury” (2022) 3 Minutes
https://csts.ua.edu/mercury/
ORAL HISTORIES AND INTERVIEWS
Oral Histories
https://csts.ua.edu/multimedia/stories/
“Dr. John Cannell, Family Physician Who Refused To See New Patients Who Smoked” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/multimedia/stories/john-cannell/
“Smoke-Filled Room: The American Medical Association Resident Physician Section’s Support for Anti-smoking Only Went So Far…” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/ama-rps
“Ira Sharenow: The Power of a Single Individual to Improve the Indoor Air Environment” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/interviews/ira/
“Artist Terre Thaemlitz’ Guerilla Parodies of Newport Subway Ads” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/interviews/terre/
“Ron Bloomberg: ‘All in the Family’ Writer Penned Historic Anti-Cigarette Marketing Ad (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/interviews/bloomberg/
INFOGRAPHICS AND POSTERS
Adapted from original conference presentations and research posters
“Ongoing Relationships between the Tobacco Industry and Universities” (in progress, 2022)
https://csts.ua.edu/csts-posters-infographics/universities/
“Smoking and the Patient with Cardiovascular Disease” (2022)
https://csts.ua.edu/csts-posters-infographics/cardiovascular-disease/
“Exploring the Interface Between JUUL Addiction and Digital Media Addiction: An Addiction Within an Addiction?” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/csts-posters-infographics/juul/
“Myths and Realities of Medical Marijuana and Cannabidiol (CBD)” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/marijuana/
“Cannabidiol (CBD): What Consumers Need To Know” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/csts-posters-infographics/cbd/
“Medical Marijuana: Myths And Realities” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/csts-posters-infographics/myths/
“The Filter Fraud: Debunking the Myth of ‘Safer’ as a Key New Strategy of Tobacco Control” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/fraud/
“The Detrimental Effects of Smoking On the Musculoskeletal System” (2021)
https://csts.ua.edu/csts-posters-infographics/musculoskeletal/
“Canaries in the Mine: The Airline Flight Attendants’ Fight to End Smoking Aloft” (2019)
https://csts.ua.edu/csts-posters-infographics/airlines/
“The UAE Paradox: Stricter Tobacco Control Policies, But A Stronger Tobacco Industry” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/csts-posters-infographics/uae/
“Digital Media Addiction: An Emerging Problem Among College Students Zombie Apocalypse or Simply a Generation in Denial?” (2020)
https://csts.ua.edu/dma/emerging-problem-poster/