Behind-the-scenes stories of the effort to end the smoking pandemic over the past century.
Working for the paranoid American Medical Association
“Artists as Ashtrays”: Satirizing Philip Morris’ sponsorship of the arts
Countering RJ Reynolds’ test market of Dakota cigarettes in Houston: “Dakota, DaCough, DaCancer, DaCoffin”
DOC at the forefront of grassroots activism aimed at the tobacco industry and its allies
DOC’s first statewide health promotion efforts: South Carolina
DOC’s opposition to the Philip Morris-crafted bill to put tobacco products under the FDA
The first theme issue of a medical journal devoted to ending the smoking pandemic: Medical Journal of Australia, March 5, 1983
Back stories of highlights of the Center’s collection
Dr. Joe Davis and Dr. Charles Frank Tate, early outspoken opponents of cigarette smoking in Florida
Dr. John Cannell, controversial West Virginia family physician who refused to see new patients who smoked
DOC Co-founder Dr. Rick Richards’ observations on family medicine
Dr. Rick Richards on speaking in the classroom
Early influences on Dr. Rick Richards
Philip Morris and 7-Up: Diversification by tobacco companies to polish the industry’s tarnished image
Eric Solberg, DOC’s secret weapon
Exhibits USA, a nationwide museum exhibitions organization heavily supported by Philip Morris
Father Thomas Garrett, prescient author on the ethics of cigarette advertising
Out of the frying pan and into the fire
DOC’s first research project to study positive health strategies for the office waiting room
Gus Miller, unsung hero who exposed the filter fraud
Origins of DOC, September 1977: A meeting of the minds in Kansas City
Initial interest in the tobacco pandemic
The unsavory Larry King
Teenagers, cigarette taxes, and LeBron James sneakers
Concerns over the commercialization of marijuana
Dr. Alton Ochsner, pioneering anti-smoking thoracic surgeon
Dr. C. Everett Koop, the Surgeon General who used his bully pulpit to fight smoking
Sire George Godber, eloquent early leader of the United Kingdom’s efforts to combat smoking
Philip Morris sues DOC over Killer Lite parody
New York Botanical Garden’s ties to Lorillard and the cancellation of a conference on tobacco
“The Flea with an Erection”
“Country fresh arsenic”: DOC’s first paid bus bench counter-advertisements
The evolution of National DOC
Overview of the Center’s collection of original newspaper headlines on smoking
The story of a sweatshirt: “Philip Morris Supports the Arts”
Philip Morris’ sponsorship of the arts
J. Fred McDonald, eminent TV, radio, and film historian who donated vintage cigarette commercials and rare news programs about smoking to the Center
Philip Morris’ funding of National Public Radio and the Public Broadcasting System
Tobacco industry funding of religious organizations
Public health and medical groups’ opposition to the nomination of Dr. C. Everett Koop as Surgeon General
In a letter to the New England Journal of Medicine, Sammy Blum, age 6, exposes depictions of smoking in Marvel Masterpieces
The world’s most creative cigarette advertisements: Silk Cut
A missed opportunity in 1986 for Johns Hopkins to become a global anti-smoking leader
The DOC SuperHealth ’79 Conference for junior high school students in Dade County, Florida
Organizing DOC chapters at family medicine residencies across the US
“The editor will not be permitted to speak about smoking…”: Having to turn down the editorship of American Family Physician
Creating DOC Talks for schools and radio
DOC’s longtime role at the National Conference of Family Practice Residents
The hypocrisy of modern tobacco control
Dr. Blum’s and Dr. Richards’ early DOC tag-team presentation
Cigarette advertising and censorship at The New York Times
The first DOC “housecalls” at cigarette-sponsored events
“This is your eggs and brain on drugs”
Education on smoking cessation and prevention in medical schools–or the lack thereof
An early beneficiary of Virginia Slims tournament money: The American Cancer Society
Ed Sweda, Massachusett’s Pioneering Champion of Clean Indoor Air Legislation
