Repository for historical and contemporary materials on the role and influence of tobacco in U.S. society
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The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society retweeted
Richard Nixon signed a bill - this day 1970 - banning cigarette ads on radio and TV. It meant no more commercials with Fred Flintstone lighting up:
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Ronald Reagan (40th president of the United States) featured in a #Cigar Institute of America advertisement from 1951.
#PresidentsDay
A happy #ValentinesDay2022 from your sweethearts at @UA_CSTS!
Be sure to check out our gallery of #smoking themed greeting cards: csts.ua.edu/collections/gree…
Also, look out for our exhibition on #Women and #Tobacco coming soon.
#valentinesday
The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society retweeted
The unKOOL, unfiltered history of #menthol cigarettes. Guest editorial by Alan Blum (@UA_CSTS). #EndTobacco #LungHealth
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The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society retweeted
Today, @FDATobacco announced the agency’s commitment to evidence-based actions aimed at saving lives and preventing future generations of smokers:
Today, @US_FDA announced the agency’s commitment to evidence-based actions aimed at saving lives and preventing future generations of smokers: fda.gov/news-events/press-an…
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With the @US_FDA moving to place a ban on #menthol in #cigarettes we invite you to view our exhibition on the targeting of minorities by the tobacco industry.
csts.ua.edu/minorities/
#InternationalWomensDay Explore how Philip Morris co-opted women's liberation to push cigarettes by introducing Virginia Slims
csts.ua.edu/long-way/
With the #Masters2020 being played in Augusta this weekend we look back 50 years to this issue of Golf Digest from September 1970 featuring two-time #GreenJacket winner Ben Hogan.
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The Crimson Tide begin their 2020 football season this Saturday.🏈 Look back to the cigarette ads in UA's gameday programs from the @bryantmuseum in our exhibition csts.ua.edu/sports/football/
The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society retweeted
In which Alan Blum (@uabmedicine) and Eric Solberg (@UTHealth) ask: Should anyone really be surprised that when it comes to public health and health care, money and politics take precedence over science? cancerletter.com/articles/20… (@UA_CSTS)
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As football returns (#Kickoff2020) take a moment to look at our collection of football themed Cigarette ads featuring programs from @bryantmuseum. #nfl #footballisback #football
csts.ua.edu/sports/football/
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An example of one of Willis Shook's series of anti-smoking illustrations that could be reprinted in turn of the 20th century newspapers. Circa 1910.
csts.ua.edu/collections/chil…
Even we make mistakes! Learn more about how one of our favorite items turned out to be something much more than even we knew. csts.ua.edu/corrections/
Today we honor our nation's #Veterans and thank them for their service. Last year CSTS debuted an exhibition The Makin's of a Nation: Tobacco in WWI (csts.ua.edu/wwi) that traces the origins of the cigarette pandemic to the trenches of World War I.
The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society retweeted
What do #PhilipMorris and the Sacklers have in common? @UA_CSTS's Dr. Alan Blum: "For the past half-century, the money doled out by this super-patron of the arts has helped burnish the company’s nicotine-stained image." - cancerletter.com/articles/20…
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Hey @TheCancerLetter, thanks for sharing Dr. Blum's article! We're sure the people @uamshealth do fine work, but that's not us! We're proud to be with the @UofAlabama! If you want to know more about the Tobacco Industry's support of the arts visit: csts.ua.edu/museum
"Museum malignancy: What the Sacklers and Philip Morris have in common" - Guest editorial by @uamshealth's Alan Blum, Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society cancerletter.com/articles/20…
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New Organization Forms to Confront the Epidemic of Popcorn Lung @LungPopcorn tobaccoanalysis.blogspot.com… @LungAssociation Join Now to Save the Kids
Museum Malignancy: #TobaccoIndustry Sponsorship of the Arts, is now online csts.ua.edu/museum/ , the exhibition explores the collaboration between #art #museums and the maker of the world's top-selling #cigarette, #Marlboro
#OnThisDay in 2010, a #Christmas-themed Heineken #beer ad appeared in Sports Illustrated, heralding the start of the #holidayseason. #HolidaysAreComing
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Smoking and Health: Report of the Advisory Committee to the Surgeon General of the United States was a landmark report released on Jan. 11, 1964. It concluded that cigarette smoking was a cause of lung cancer and was related to a host of other diseases. #LungCancerAwarenessMonth
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