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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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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

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.

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.

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 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 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.

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."

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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