Ashes to Ashes
The History of Smoking and Health
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Paperback/Softback
252 pages
978-90-420-0386-6 (ISBN)
Description
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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Language
English
Place of publication
Leiden
Netherlands
Publishing group
Brill
Dimensions
Height: 23 mm
Width: 16 mm
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0386-6 (9789042003866)
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Content
Contributors. Stephen LOCK: Introduction. Jordan GOODMAN: Webs of Drug Dependence: Towards a Political History of Tobacco. Matthew HILTON and Simon NIGHTINGALE: `A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make': Religion and Science in the British Anti-Tobacco Movement, 1853-1908. David HARLEY: The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting. Hugh COCKERELL: Tobacco and Victorian Literature. Peter BARTRIP: Pushing the Weed: The Editorializing and Advertising of Tobacco in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1880-1958. Sir Richard DOLL: The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer. Virginia BERRIDGE: Science and Policy: The Case of Postwar British Smoking Policy. Allan M. BRANDT: Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture. Sir Christopher C. BOOTH: Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians. Sir Francis Avery JONES: Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking. Charles FLETCHER: The Story of the Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians. David SIMPSON: ASH: Witness on Smoking. Sir John CROFTON: Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize. Keith BALL: Horace Joules' Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking. Kjell BJARTVEIT: The History of the Norwegian Ban on Tobacco Advertising. Roy PORTER: Concluding Remarks. Index.