tobacco

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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: Salon
  2/21/2022
  

  How Ben Franklin Leveraged the French Addiction to Snuff to Get Aid for Independence

  by Willard Sterne Randall

  Without any tobacco-producing colonies, the French crown was eager to gain access to tobacco from Virginia, a fact deftly exploited by Franklin. 

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• SOURCE: Nature
  10/18/2021
  

  How Cigarettes Became a Civil Rights Issue

  Medical Historian Keith Wailoo's new book argues that tobacco companies have systematically targeted Black communities with advertisements for menthol cigarettes and enlisted Black civil rights leaders to oppose regulations on flavored tobacco sales. 

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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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• 6-16-14
  

  A Historian Writes a History of a Tobacco Company and Never Mentions Lung Cancer?

  by Daniel J. Robinson

  Would it surprise you to learn that a university historian published a book on Canada's largest tobacco firm that never once mentioned lung cancer?

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  2-11-14
  

  Thank You For Not Selling: Historian Nancy Koehn On CVS' Tobacco Ban

  Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn: "a supremely wise and forward thinking move.

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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.