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A Capsule History of Tobacco Tobacco Timeline; extensive yet concise timeline of key dates in tobacco history.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History.html
A Chronology of Tobacco in the Civilized World Outline of tobacco and tobacco industry history shows trends.
http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/Tobacco-ChronologyJul98.htm
Brief Use of Tobacco Use and Abuse An account of the development of the use of the drug in the western world.
http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/education/tobaccohistory.htm
Cigarettes and the 1964 Report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee From the 1972 Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/CU26.html
Dry Drunk Exploration of the culture of tobacco in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. From the New York Public Library, and based on an exhibit held there in 1997.
http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm
George Seldes on Tobacco The scientific studies on the health effects of tobacco go back to 1938, but few papers were running stories about it: their leading advertisers were the tobacco companies. George Seldes (1890-1995) was an exception; a set of his tobacco stories from 1940 to 1950 is reprinted here.
http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/tobac.html
History Net- The History of Tobacco Reprinting of the Tobacco Timeline.
http://historian.org/bysubject/tobacco1.htm
History of Tobacco Regulation From the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy; covers the 1600s through the mid 1970s.
http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/nc/nc2b.htm
Interview with Richard Peto Richard Peto was one of the first to realize that tobacco products were killing their customers; interview covers the discovery, public health and public policy, and the sheer size of tobacco death.
http://www.newscientist.com/opinion/opinterview.jsp?id=ns23065
John Rolfe Information on the life of Virginia tobacco founder John Rolfe.
http://www.apva.org/history/jrolfe.html
RCP Report - 40 Fatal Years A Review of the 40 years since the publication of the 1962 Report of the Royal College of Physicians on Smoking and Health (UK). The original publication is presented along with some analysis on what happened since.
http://www.ash.org.uk/html/policy/rcp40threport.html
Scientist's Story Hurt Tobacco Industry Dr. Victor DeNoble, a former senior scientist at Philip Morris, tells his story. (November 16, 1999)
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1999/Nov-16-Tue-1999/news/12361546.html
smoking and Disease: The Tobacco Industry's Earliest Responses Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents how the tobacco industry responded in the 1950s and 1960s to the emerging medical evidence about the product.
http://texts.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft8489p25j&chunk.id=d0e1246
The Anti-Tobacco Campaign of the Nazis Report about anti-tobacco public health program in Germany from 1933-45, supported by Nazi medical and military leaders as part of their concern for racial and bodily purity.
http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/313/7070/1450
The Cigarette Papers Showcases the contrast between the tobacco industry's private knowledge and its public statements over the past 50 years.
http://tobaccowall.ucsf.edu/
The Price of Coffins: Specious Arguments by Eeminent Doctors against the Dangers of Tobacco Letter to the British medical Journal reviews some tobacco, medical, and public policy history: 'good evidence showed that smoking causes lung cancer; the media's response to this information was initially resistant; specious arguments were used to detract from the real issue, which confused the general public and lessened its concern; after 40 years there has been little change in smoking rates.' (December 18, 1999)
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1621
The Quiet Victory of the Cigarette Lobby Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress.
http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/smoking/drewf.htm
The Tobacco Wars Colorful web site provides a capsule history of tobacco, from 1492 to 1988. Where did the tobacco industry as we know it come from, and when and how did the existence of tobacco turn into the selling and promotion of tobacco? This site has answers.
http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/tobacco_timeline1.html
The truth is, anti-smoking ads work Article from the Palm Beach Post covers the use of paid media by the industry and by anti-smoking campaigns. (March 28, 1999)
http://no-smoking.org/march99/03-30-99-1.html
Tobacco Ads of the 1940s and 1950s A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco marketing.
http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html
Tobacco History Collection of links to histories.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/
Tobacco Lawyers and the Case For Cover-up Reform Column on legal affairs reviews history of tobacco industry and its lawyers. (February 13, 2001)
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2001-02-13.htm
Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles Complete, online book by Glantz and Birnbach provides over 30 years of experience gained in tobacco control in California.
http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft167nb0vq/
Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles Book on the California tobacco history from the 1970s on. book information, reviews, ordering information.
http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8861.html
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