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	Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles - http://ark.cdlib.org/ark:/13030/ft167nb0vq/ Complete, online book by Glantz and Birnbach provides over 30 years of experience gained in tobacco control in California.
	A Capsule History of Tobacco - http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/Tobacco_History.html Tobacco Timeline; a concise timeline of key dates in tobacco history.
	Dry Drunk - http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm 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.
	Tobacco Ads of the 1940s and 1950s - http://www.chickenhead.com/truth/index.html A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco marketing.
	Tobacco History - http://www.tobacco.org/resources/history/ Collection of links to histories.

	The Cigarette Papers - http://tobaccowall.ucsf.edu/ Showcases the contrast between the tobacco industry's private knowledge and its public statements over the past 50 years.
	George Seldes on Tobacco - http://www.brasscheck.com/seldes/tobac.html 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.
	John Rolfe - http://www.apva.org/history/jrolfe.html Information on the life of Virginia tobacco founder John Rolfe.
	Tobacco War: Inside the California Battles - http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/8861.html Book on the California tobacco history from the 1970s on. book information, reviews, ordering information.
	The Anti-Tobacco Campaign of the Nazis - http://bmj.bmjjournals.com/cgi/content/full/313/7070/1450 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.

	The Price of Coffins: Specious Arguments by Eeminent Doctors against the Dangers of Tobacco - http://www.bmj.com/cgi/content/full/319/7225/1621 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."
	History Net- The History of Tobacco - http://historian.org/bysubject/tobacco1.htm Reprinting of the Tobacco Timeline.
	A Chronology of Tobacco in the Civilized World - http://www.mindfully.org/Industry/Tobacco-ChronologyJul98.htm Outline of tobacco and tobacco industry history shows trends.
	The Quiet Victory of the Cigarette Lobby - http://www.theatlantic.com/unbound/flashbks/smoking/drewf.htm Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress.
	Tobacco Lawyers and the Case For Cover-up Reform - http://www.theatlantic.com/politics/nj/taylor2001-02-13.htm Column on legal affairs reviews history of tobacco industry and its lawyers.

	RCP Report - 40 Fatal Years - http://www.newash.org.uk/ash_xb2eta2q.htm 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.
	Brief Use of Tobacco Use and Abuse - http://www.wramc.amedd.army.mil/Patients/diseases/wh/c7/Pages/s5.aspx An account of the development of the use of the drug in the western world.
	History of Tobacco Regulation - http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/LIBRARY/studies/nc/nc2b.htm From the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy; covers the 1600s through the mid 1970s.
	The truth is, anti-smoking ads work - http://no-smoking.org/march99/03-30-99-1.html Article from the Palm Beach Post covers the use of paid media by the industry and by anti-smoking campaigns.
	Scientist's Story Hurt Tobacco Industry - http://www.reviewjournal.com/lvrj_home/1999/Nov-16-Tue-1999/news/12361546.html Dr. Victor DeNoble, a former senior scientist at Philip Morris, tells his story.

	Cigarettes and the 1964 Report of the Surgeon General's Advisory Committee - http://www.druglibrary.org/schaffer/library/studies/cu/CU26.html From the 1972 Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs.
	smoking and Disease: The Tobacco Industry's Earliest Responses - http://texts.cdlib.org/xtf/view?docId=ft8489p25j&chunk.id=d0e1246 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.
	The Tobacco Wars - http://bsd.mojones.com/mother_jones/MJ96/tobacco_timeline1.html 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.
	History Today: Smoking Gun - http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_hb4706/is_200005/ai_n17269293 Matthew Hilton examines the mystique surrounding tobacco, the history of tobacco industry, government and consumer actions on smoking in the UK.

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