The Surgeon General vs. The Marlboro Man: Who Really Won?

The images in the slide presentation below are highlights of the exhibition, “The Surgeon General vs. The Marlboro Man: Who Really Won?” which was on view at the Amelia Gayle Gorgas Library of The University of Alabama from October to November 2013, before traveling to the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, Austin, Texas, from January to March 2014, the Texas Medical Center Library, Houston, Texas from March to May 2014, and the Louisiana State University Health Sciences Center Library, New Orleans, Louisiana in November 2014. Curated by Alan Blum, MD, the exhibition commemorated the 50th anniversary of the publication of the landmark Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health on January 11, 1964 by Alabamian Luther Terry, MD.

A companion video entitled “When More Doctors Smoked Camels…”features a gallery tour of the exhibition at the Gorgas Library.

The slide set originally appeared in 2014 on The Cancer Network, the website of the journal ONCOLOGY (http://www.cancernetwork.com/articles/surgeon-general-vs-marlboro-man-who-really-won).

Citation

Blum A. The Surgeon General vs. The Marlboro Man: Who Really Won?. Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society. https://csts.ua.edu/exhibitions/2014-sg-v-mm/. Published March 9, 2017.

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The Surgeon General vs. The Marlboro Man

Slide Presentation

Alan Blum, MD
Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
2013

The Press Conference

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service

Press Conference
January 11, 1964

Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the Public Health Service

Radio Address
January 11, 1964

Program

FIGHTING SMOKE with FIRE

An exhibition, documentary film screening, and commentaries by guest speakers to commemorate the 50th anniversary of the publication by Alabamian Dr. Luther Terry of the landmark 1964 U.S. Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health

Gorgas Library, University of Alabama
Moderated by Alan Blum, MD Director, The University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
November 20, 2013