Tobacco in industrializing America -- Tobacco's New Deal -- Cultivating the grower -- The challenge of the public interest -- Inventing the nonsmoker -- From rights to cost -- Shredding a net to build ...
“I like that clean taste and smooth feeling in my throat,” reads the word bubble from the mouth of Elston Howard, the first Black player for the New York Yankees, who was cast in an early 1960s print ...
NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the ...
Mid-century cigarette ads did more than sell tobacco. They sold emotional safety through white coats, calm language, and the suggestion that modern medicine had already weighed the risks. For many ...
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When Lung Cancer Fears Emerged in the 1950s, Kent Put a Filter on their Cigarettes. It Was Made From Asbestos
In the early 1950s, cigarette companies in the US were starting to have a problem. For the first time, large-scale scientific studies were showing a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. The ...
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