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 * WELCOME TO
   
   The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
   
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   History • Irony • Metaphor
   
   


 * CARTOONISTS TAKE UP SMOKING
   
   Retracing the battles over smoking as seen through the eyes of the nation’s
   editorial cartoonists
   
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 * COVERING CANCER?
   
   How magazines have promoted cancer research…and cigarettes
   
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 * OF MICE & MENTHOL
   
   A history of the targeting of African Americans by the tobacco industry
   
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 * BIG TOBACCO IN THE BIG APPLE
   
   How New York City became the heart of the tobacco industry…and anti-smoking
   activism  
   
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 * THE UNFILTERED TRUTH ABOUT SMOKING
   
   When the American Medical Association was in cahoots with the tobacco
   industry
   
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 * THE FIRST MEDICAL JOURNAL THEME ISSUES ON SMOKING
   
   
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 * "BLOWING SMOKE"
   
   The Lost Legacy of the Surgeon General’s Report
   
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 * "MILD AS MAY"
   
   How Tobacco Companies Sold Women a Pack of Lies
   
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Warning: This website will be hazardous to your preconceptions.

Founded in 1999, the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society holds the
largest collection of original documents, artifacts, ephemera, photographs, and
news coverage of anti-smoking activism, cigarette marketing, and the tobacco
industry in the United States from the 19th century to the present. Through
online exhibitions, oral histories, and presentations, this vast and ironic
resource explores historical and contemporary aspects of tobacco problems from
all angles — including the many decades of fear and foot-dragging by public
health officials, organized medicine, schools of medicine and public health, the
mass media, the business community, and political leaders at the local, state,
and federal levels in countering the use and promotion of cigarettes long after
the health community knew of the deadly toll taken by smoking.

The Center’s exhibitions provide sobering lessons about the failure of
government, academia, foundations, and health organizations alike to overcome
their addiction to money for endless, duplicative research — a strategy set in
motion in 1954 by the tobacco industry itself, when it attempted to burnish its
nicotine-stained image by creating the Tobacco Industry Research Committee
[renamed the Council for Tobacco Research in 1964 following the indictment of
cigarettes by the Surgeon General’s Report on Smoking and Health], which offered
lucrative employment opportunities for scientists willing cast doubt on the
growing evidence of cigarette smoking as a major cause of death and disease. Nor
have cigarette makers skipped a beat, reframing themselves as altruists
providing a range of noncombustible addictive nicotine products and hiring
academics and former officials of the World Health Organization, the Food and
Drug Administration, and the American Legacy Foundation to tout a smoke-free,
reduced-harm paradise. The tobacco debacle can also be seen as an ominous
metaphor for addressing emerging health problems such as digital media
addiction, obesity, vaccination refusal, and disinformation.



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MULTIMEDIA

Looking behind the scenes

Link to: Collections


ORAL HISTORIES

Myths and realities of the war on tobacco

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EXHIBITIONS

Curated from the Center’s Collection

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 * About CSTS
 * Accessibility
 * Contact Us
 * CSTS on YouTube
 * CSTS Video – About the Center (05:03)
 * CSTS Video – More About the Center (07:09)
 * CSTS Website Guide
 * US Tobacco Timeline
 * DOC Anti-Smoking Activism Timeline

 * CSTS Symposium to Mark the 50th Anniversary of the Surgeon General’s Report.
 * Video: TEDx Talk by Alan Blum, MD: The Lost Legacy of the Surgeon General’s
   Report, 2016 (18:36)
   
 * Video: ABC’s of Smoking and E-cigarettes, 2022 (1:33:04)
 * Video: Blowing Smoke, 2013 (23:29)
 * Video: Medicine vs Madison Avenue, 1992 (25:18)
 * Video: Smoke that Cigarette, 1988 (51:52)
 * Video: When More Doctors Smoked Camels, 2014 (15:07)
 * Video: Your Drug Store and Cancer Center, 2009 (02:25)
 * Video: Sui-Genocide: The Killing of Minority Groups by the Tobacco Industry
   (56:12)


CONTACT

Alan Blum, M.D., Director
205-348-2886
ablum@ua.edu

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