College of Community Health Sciences | University of Alabama
The unique, miscellaneous items, and highlights of the collections and presentations from Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
At the close of the 20th century tobacco makers began to introduce “safer” cigarettes, by introducing light cigarettes and alternatives to combustible cigarettes that would be among the forerunners of electronic cigarettes…
As concerns about the health effects of cigarettes mounted in the mid 20th century, Brown and Williamson introduced a novel way to combat fears about tobacco… more tobacco…
A gallery of five medical ashtrays from various hospitals and insurers…
Dan DelMonico, a Miami entrepreneur who founded the United States Military Ashtray Museum in 2019, sets the record straight about a valued CSTS artifact…
In 2016 plain cigarette packaging was introduced in the United Kingdom, France, and New Zealand. Ireland followed in 2018 and Hungary and Canada in 2019. Even if these measures aimed at curbing the tobacco industry’s use of the package as a promotional mini-billboard have yet to achieve the drop in cigarette consumption that proponents had hoped for…
When Congress banned cigarette advertising from TV and radio, effective January 1, 1971, the tobacco industry shifted much of its cigarette advertising dollars to the print medium. Magazines such as Time, Newsweek, US News & World Report, Sports Illustrated, Playboy, Popular Science, Ebony, Rolling Stone, Glamour, and Mademoiselle all published numerous cigarette advertisements…
Although the American Cancer Society and the American Academy of Dermatology strongly warn against using tanning beds, no website dedicated to countering the use and promotion of tanning beds exists. Accordingly, this website TANNING BEDLAM will attempt to expose and debunk misleading claims by the tanning bed industry…
For decades pharmaceutical manufacturers have employed stereotypical images of the inveterate smoker in advertisements for prescription medications in medical journals. Physicians have thus been cued not to talk with the patient about stopping smoking but rather to prescribe an additional medication, often one to treat an adverse effect of smoking…
In 1952, using the popular new medium of television, the P. Lorillard Co. sponsored “scientific” demonstrations to show the efficacy and implied health benefits of its KENT Micronite filter. The campaign also featured advertisements in medical journals. Although the ads did not disclose the composition of “Micronite,” the material that Lorillard touted as “so safe, so effective …
The American Medical Association – Resident Physician Section’s support for anti-smoking only went so far…
In May 2021, Los Angeles family physician Howard Sawyer, MD, contacted the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society after reading the cover story in the May 7, 2021 issue of The Cancer Letter…
The July 11, 1691 issue of The Athenian Mercury is the oldest original publication in the Center’s collection. Printed in London, England twice a week from March 1690 to June 1697 by the Athenian Society, a group of four knowledgeable individuals, the magazine provided answers to readers’ questions on a wide range of subjects, including science, literature, politics, and religion.
In this edition, a reader submits the question, “Whether the taking of Tobacco does a man good or hurt?”