History

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

History Today: Smoking Gun - Matthew Hilton examines the mystique surrounding tobacco, the history of tobacco industry, government and consumer actions on smoking in the UK.
http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4706/is_200005/ai_n17269293

Scientist's Story Hurt Tobacco Industry - Dr. Victor DeNoble, a former senior scientist at Philip Morris, tells his story. <small>(November 16, 1999)</small>
http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1999/Nov-16-Tue-1999/news/12361546.html

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/

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

Tobacco Lawyers and the Case For Cover-up Reform - Column on legal affairs reviews history of tobacco industry and its lawyers. <small>(February 13, 2001)</small>
http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2001-02-13.htm

History Net- The History of Tobacco - Reprinting of the Tobacco Timeline.
http://historian.org/bysubject/tobacco1.htm

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." <small>(December 18, 1999)</small>
http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1621

Tobacco History - Collection of links to histories.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/

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

The Tobacco Wars - Provides a capsule history of tobacco, from 1492 to 1988. Where did the tobacco industry come from, and when and how did the existence of tobacco turn into the selling and promotion of tobacco? Includes answers.
http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/tobacco_timeline1.html

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

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

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

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

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. <small>(March 28, 1999)</small>
http://no-smoking.org/march99/03-30-99-1.html

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 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

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

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.newash.org.uk/ash_xb2eta2q.htm

John Rolfe - Information on the life of Virginia tobacco founder John Rolfe.
http://www.apva.org/history/jrolfe.html

A Capsule History of Tobacco - Tobacco Timeline; a concise timeline of key dates in tobacco history.
http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History.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

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/Patients/diseases/wh/c7/Pages/s5.aspx