Future historians will wonder why, despite the risks, society persisted in its warm relationship with the cigarette; by the end of the century global consumption was still rising. The 1995 symposium at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine not only examined tobacco's connection with health, but the varied attitudes towards smoking, which have included regarding it as 'manly', relaxing, fashionable - and decadent. A particular feature was a witness seminar attended not only by those who had made the initial discovery but by those with a crucial role in promoting public awareness of the dangers. And, as shown in this book, we still cannot escape the paradox that, while a considerable proportion of a country's population is hooked on the cigarette, the tobacco industry and the government are equally addicted to the profits and tax revenues it generates.
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United States, New York, Royal College of Physicians, Bradford Hill, Journal of the American Medical Association, Avery Jones, British Journal, Jan Steen, Medical Research Council, National Gallery, North Carolina, Richard Doll, United Nations, Adriaen van Ostade, Charles Fletcher, Department of Health, Health Education Council, American Tobacco Company, Cambridge University Press, Ministry of Health, Children's Act, First World War, New England Journal of Medicine, Robert Platt, The Times New!
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- Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence by Jordan Goodman on 4 pages
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- Preventive Medicine by J Howard on page 174
- The Social History of Smoking (Dodo Press) by George Latimer Apperson on page 121
- Is He Popenjoy? (Oxford World's Classics) by Anthony Trollope on page 88
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- Making Health Policy: Networks in Research and Policy after 1945 (Clio Medica 75) by Virginia Berridge on page 64, and Back Matter
- Performances of the Sacred in Late Medieval and Early Modern England (Internationale Forschungen zur Allgemeinen und Vergleichenden ... & Vergleichenden Literaturwissenschaft) by Susanne Rupp on page 191, and page 196
- Medicine, the Market and the Mass Media: Producing Health in the Twentieth Century (Routledge Studies in the Social History of Medicine) by Virginia Berridge on page 166
- Daily Life in the Early American Republic, 1790-1820: Creating a New Nation (The Greenwood Press Daily Life Through History Series) by David S. Heidler in Back Matter
- The Deadly Truth: A History of Disease in America by Gerald N. Grob in Back Matter
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