Ashes to Ashes
The History of Smoking and Health
Published on 1. January 1998
Book
Hardback
258 pages
978-90-420-0396-5 (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
Product notice
sewn/stitched
Cloth over boards
Dimensions
Height: 243 mm
Width: 166 mm
Thickness: 34 mm
Weight
544 gr
ISBN-13
978-90-420-0396-5 (9789042003965)
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Content
Contributors
Introduction
Stephen LOCK
Webs of Drug Dependence: Towards a Political History of Tobacco
Jordan GOODMAN
'A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make': Religion and Science in the British Anti-Tobacco Movement, 1853-1908
Matthew HILTON and Simon NIGHTINGALE
The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting
David HARLEY
Tobacco and Victorian Literature
Hugh COCKERELL
Pushing the Weed: The Editorializing and Advertising of Tobacco in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1880-1958
Peter BARTRIP
The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer
Sir Richard DOLL
Science and Policy: The Case of Postwar British Smoking Policy
Virginia BERRIDGE
Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture
Allan M. BRANDT
Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians
Sir Christopher C. BOOTH
Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking
Sir Francis Avery JONES
The Story of the Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians
Charles FLETCHER
ASH: Witness on Smoking
David SIMPSON
Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize
Sir John CROFTON
Horace Joules' Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking
Keith BALL
The History of the Norwegian Ban on Tobacco Advertising
Kjell BJARTVEIT
Concluding Remarks
Roy PORTER
Index
Introduction
Stephen LOCK
Webs of Drug Dependence: Towards a Political History of Tobacco
Jordan GOODMAN
'A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make': Religion and Science in the British Anti-Tobacco Movement, 1853-1908
Matthew HILTON and Simon NIGHTINGALE
The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting
David HARLEY
Tobacco and Victorian Literature
Hugh COCKERELL
Pushing the Weed: The Editorializing and Advertising of Tobacco in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1880-1958
Peter BARTRIP
The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer
Sir Richard DOLL
Science and Policy: The Case of Postwar British Smoking Policy
Virginia BERRIDGE
Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture
Allan M. BRANDT
Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians
Sir Christopher C. BOOTH
Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking
Sir Francis Avery JONES
The Story of the Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians
Charles FLETCHER
ASH: Witness on Smoking
David SIMPSON
Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize
Sir John CROFTON
Horace Joules' Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking
Keith BALL
The History of the Norwegian Ban on Tobacco Advertising
Kjell BJARTVEIT
Concluding Remarks
Roy PORTER
Index