cigarettes

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• SOURCE: The Atlantic
  11/11/2022
  

  Can the Techniques of Antismoking Ads Work for Gun Violence?

  Antismoking PSAs shifted attention from individual smokers to the tobacco companies profiting from selling dangerous products. Can the same work to reduce the appeal of guns? 

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• SOURCE: New York Times
  7/6/2022
  

  Ending the Illusion that Smoking is a Choice

  by Sarah Milov

  Tobacco companies still promote the convenient fiction that users addicted to the nicotine in their products are making a free choice to consume them. 

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• SOURCE: Truth Out
  3/21/19
  

  Cigarettes Are Central to the History of Corporate Power

  In Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, author Nan Enstad reveals how the definitive moments in the expansion of corporate power took place through one of the deadliest commodities.

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• 1/27/19
  

  The Surprising Role of the Army in Getting Americans Addicted to Cigarettes

  by Joel R. Bius

  What a historian who is in the Air Force discovered when he dug into the archives.

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• 3-17-14
  

  When Cigarettes Were Good for Women

  by Blain Roberts

  You've come a long way, maybe.

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• 6-17-13
  

  Canadian Historians: Come Clean About Your Relationship with Big Tobacco

  by Daniel J. Robinson

  Image via Shutterstock.Later this month, Acadia University historian and former Dean of Arts Robert Perrins will testify in a Montreal courtroom on behalf of the tobacco industry. There he will discuss his 400+-page expert witness report on the Canadian government’s handling of tobacco issues since the 1950s.  The year-long trial involves two class-action suits seeking to compensate Quebec smokers for nicotine addiction and disease caused by smoking. The combined claim at $27 billion is the largest in Canadian history.