A Brief History of Tobacco

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A Brief History of Tobacco

• Tobacco Control Project
• Department of Preventive Medicine
• University of Kansas School of Medicine

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Cigarettes are Sublime?

• Warning smokers of the dangers entices them more
  powerfully to the edge of the abyss, where, like
  travelers in a Swiss landscape, they can be
  thrilled by the subtle grandeur of the
  perspectives on mortality opened by the tiny
  terrors in every puff. Cigarettes are bad. That
  is why they are good - not good, not beautiful,
  but sublime.

Klein, Richard. (1993). Cigarettes are Sublime.
Durham Duke University Press.
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1492-1800
Ford, Barry. (1994). Smokescreen. Perth,
Australia Halcyon.
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Early Anti-tobacco Marketing?
A custom loathsome to the eye, hatefull to
the Nose, harmfull to the braine, dangerous to
the Lungs, and in the black stinking fume
thereof, neerest resembling the the horrible
Stygian smoke of the pit that is bottomlesse.
King James I,. (1604) A Counterblaste to Tobacco,
as cited in Ford, Barry, (1994). Smokescreen.
Perth, Australia Halcyon.
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1801-1900
Ford, Barry. (1994). Smokescreen. Perth,
Australia Halcyon.
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1901-Today
Kluger, Richard. (1996). Ashes to Ashes. New
York Knopf Ford, Barry. (1994).
Smokescreen. Perth, Australia Halcyon.
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Tobacco Was Decidedly Less Cool in the 80s
Do you mind if I smoke? Not at all! Do you
mind if I fart? Steve Martin
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Missed Opportunities?
1906 Food and Drug Act 1966 Fair Labeling and
Packaging Act 1970 Controlled Substance Act 1972
Consumer Product Safety Act 1976 Toxic Substances
Act
Kluger, Richard. (1996). Ashes to Ashes. New
York Knopf
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Perspectives on the Problem
Its an individual choice Children must be
protected Smokers are addicted Smoking is
immoral or deviant Smoking is disgusting All
nonsmokers must be protected Smoking is sublime
Adapted in part from Rabin, Sugarman, Eds.
(1993). Smoking policy Law, politics,
culture. New York Oxford