Confronting America’s Smoking Pandemic
A Time Line in Four Parts
Confronting America’s Smoking Pandemic, Part 2: 1967–1985
Dr. Alan Blum and Cancer Network have partnered to assemble a four-part slideshow series addressing the history of America’s smoking pandemic. Part 2 highlights the rise of tobacco awareness, and anti-smoking activism and legislation.
References:
1. Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society. Robert Kennedy speaks at the 1967 World Conference on Smoking and Health. Video. 1967. Published to YouTube on October 1, 2014.
2. American Cancer Society. History of the Great American Smokeout event.
3. US Department of Health and Human Services. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (US). The health consequences of smoking-50 years of progress. A report of the Surgeon General. Atlanta, GA: National Center for Chronic Disease Prevention and Health Promotion (US) Office on Smoking and Health; 2014.
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7. US Public Health Service. How tobacco smoke causes disease: the biology and behavioral basis for smoking-attributable disease: a report of the Surgeon General. 4. Nicotine addiction: past and present.
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9. American College of Chest Physicians. History of ACCP antitobacco activity. Updated June 2010.
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11. National Library of Medicine. Profiles in Science. The C. Everett Koop Papers: tobacco, second-hand smoke, and the campaign for a smoke-free America.
12. National Cancer Institute. Division of Cancer Prevention Oral History Project: Interview with Peter Greenwald. Conducted on December 4, 2008, by Victoria Harden. Produced by History Associates Incorporated, Rockville, MD.
13. Death in the West. 1976. Film. Thames Television, UK.
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