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T Cards For Type Collectors
History of Tobacco Baseball Cards

Tobacco cards represent the first real high point in the history of baseball cards. It is here that the modern baseball card took form. T-206 was the first truly popular set issued in the twentieth century and the first to employ color. T-3, T-201 and T-202 set production standards that weren't equaled until the 1950's. But tobacco cards, while not entirely born of necessity, had a purpose: they stiffened the cigarette pack and promoted various brands of coffin nails while providing a picture of most of the players in the game. They also present a serious challenge to the type set collector.

On the Lighter Side

OTLS was founded in 1984 with 3 members. We currently have approximately 900 members in 16 countries. This club is for collectors of any type lighter -- Ronson, Zippo, Evans, European, etc.

Cyberattic: Tobacco Advertising
Collectibles for sale. Example:

Fatima Cigarette/matchbook holder & ashtray.- 3" w x 4 " h. Very good condition ( 9.5 ) - circa 1920-1930's. $75.00 Contact: Tye Schwalbe - Item: 1759

The Rolling Stones Play Austria Tabak's Tabak Museum

How does a second-rate, state-run tobacco company from a curious little EU Member State enlist the promotional services of the world's greatest rock 'n' roll band? PM, BAT, RJR and others in their weight division are able to buy lesser artists without much trouble. But Austria Tabak appears to have achieved what may be the greatest sponsorship coup in world tobacco history. These Austria Tabak posters, featuring everybody's favorite group of all time, can now be seen all over Vienna.

3D Laser Show: Extreme Choices: No Ifs, Ands, or Butts about Youth Smoking
It's all fun and games until you're totally hooked. Wanna play?

LSC's "Extreme Choices " 3-D laser show uses sizzling, mid-air laser images to follow a character named Mike as he experiments with an adventure arcade video game where innocent choices about tobacco use lead to serious consequences.

The Science Behind Tobacco
New Jersey's Liberty Science Center

The "Science Behind Tobacco" examines the tobacco plant from seed to cigarette in three featured sections; farming, manufacturing cigarettes, and health problems caused by smoking. Get out from behind the smoke and mirrors to see how science is exploited to develop an addictive product.

The Jamestowne Society

http://www.jamestowne.org/

Jamestown Rediscovery site.

http://www.widomaker.com/~apva/

Jamestown (VA) Page
Surf back to where it all began . . . The page is a little skimpy; we hope to see it grow.
http://www.williamsburg.com/wol/tour/james/james.html

Labstat's "Tobacco Characterization Program"
A Canadian lab studying tobacco and displaying their fine smoking machines, chromatographs, etc. Reportedly once had an anti-tobacco stance, but much work for the industry has been done in recent years, and that seems to have softened. Records of government work can be found with a freedom of information request.
http://www.labstat.com/

Waiting to Inhale: America's Love-Hate Affair with the Cigarette
Wow! A Multimedia Tobacco History--from the Discovery Channel Online (through Feb. 11)

http://www.discovery.com/area/wayback/wayback970623/weblinks.htm...

CIGARETTE PAPERS
--A Webumentary on the Secrets of the Tobacco Industry
To accompany its "Smoke in the Eye" program on April 2nd, Frontline introduced a Web-based drama through hyperlinks to internal tobacco company documents posted on the Internet.

A Play in Three Acts in which Big Tobacco learns that its product is one of the leading causes of death of the 20th century, decides to try to beat this problem, fails, and then digs in for the battle it knows will ultimately seal its destiny. http://www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/frontline/smoke/webumentary/TEXT/The_Cig_Papers/CP.1

Guerilla Media
from Canada. DeMurder, DuMorir, and more "media monkeywrenching."
http://www.eznet.ca/gmedia/

Marlboro Miles Catalog
The comedy E-zineFade to Black -- Hilarious
http://www.fadetoblack.com/marlboro/

Jeanne Calment Page
122-year-old "world's oldest woman." Smoked 2-3 cigarettes a day till 117.
http://www.aeiveos.com/longevity/jlcinfo.html

Sherlock Holmes' 140 Different Varieties
A Monograph by John Hall. (Thanks, LB!)

In the Sherlock Holmes stories of Arthur Conan Doyle there are a great many references to tobacco in all its various forms. Only four of the sixty cases fail to mention tobacco at all: "The Beryl Coronet", "The Dancing Men", "The Lion's Mane" and "The Sussex Vampire"; and even then the _Strand_ illustrations to "The Sussex Vampire", by Howard Elcock, show both Holmes and Watson with a pipe apiece, indicating that by that time their smoking habits needed no specific mention in the text, but were taken for granted . . .

The Camel Who Liked to Smoke
Story of young camel entering high school--problems & temptations
http://www.beyou.com/

The IgNobel Awards
from the Annals of Improbable Medicine. And the winner of the coveted Iggie: 7 tobacco companies, for their discovery, announced in 1994 before Congress, that nicotine is not addictive!
http://www.improb.com/

Black Lung Association
Dedicated to "Cancer Man" from the X-files: And here's Yahoo's Wm. B. Davis Page
http://www.chaos.taylored.com/home/blacklung/

The Harmful Effects of Smoking
Panorama City, CA 7th-grader Jonathan Allen Johnson's First Prize Science Project. Comparisons of smoke extracted from non-filters, filters and ultra-low filters. (Jonathan's father Phil's site is very cool; worth a visit if you're into great web style.)
http://www.smartlink.net/~phillipj/smoking.htm

Tobacco Lawsuit Mad Lib
From Digital Dementia
http://www.cris.com/%7EOutlawyr/tobajava.shtml

Vices and Virtues Smoking Section
A poll, bulletin boards, etc.
http://www.vicesandvirtues.com/smoking/index.html

CSAP Resource Guide: Tobacco
Posters, video, brochures, other resource material.

The Center for Substance Abuse Prevention recognizes the serious threat that chewing and smoking tobacco poses to the health of Americans and is committed to stemming the tide of new smokers by deterring tobacco's use. This guide provides the latest information and referrals for tobacco use prevention. It highlights research, materials, programs, and organizations for prevention professionals, educators, parents, and the general public. By working together, we can save lives.

Anti-Smoking Posters We Like
Some harrowing, some insightful, some hilarious. The crme de la crme, assembled by Simon Chapman.
http://www.health.usyd.edu.au/tobacco/gallery_posters.html

Papierosy sa do Dupy
(Cigarettes are for the Behind, 1994)
Andrzej Pagowski's graphic critique of smoking was exhibited in "Polish Posters: Combat on Paper" at the Katonah (NY) Museum of Art.
http://www.katonah-museum.org/cigar.html

Toxicology of Nicotine
and treatment. From the Florida Agricultural Information Retrieval System (Thanks, LB!)
http://hammock.ifas.ufl.edu/txt/fairs/15122

The Lady Who Smoked Cigars
(1913) by Rupert Hughes, an online illustrated book at The Virtual Bookshelf.
http://www.islandmm.com/islandmm/cgi-bin/sitemlady.pl

"The Betrothed"
Kipling's " a woman is only a woman, but a good Cigar is a Smoke" poem online
http://www.rit.edu/~exb1874/mine/kipling/betrothed.html

Why Does Uncle Sam Smoke?
Drawn to ornate and colorful tobacco tins, posters, and other promotional items dating from the Civil War to 1930, Dr. Petrone traced how tobacco companies seduced a nation. "It kind of intrigued me: the weird connection between beautiful graphics and a product that turns out to be unhealthy," he says. The crowning glory of three years of research is his book "Tobacco Advertising: The Great Seduction," published this year by Pennsylvania-based Schiffer Publishing Ltd. It contains hundreds of color illustrations and describes the rise of both tobacco use and describes the rise of both tobacco use and the anti-tobacco movement.
http://www.cmanet.org/Public_Interest/CMA_Now/DrPetrone/tobacco1...

Art and Tabac
Museum show by European smokers rights group Smokepeace
http://www.smokepeace.com/gallery/index.htm

Fine Arts s of San Francisco
This organization has an excellent searchable database of its art. A search on "tobacco" turns up, among others, Narcoticure, an 1895 Poster for a tobacco cure. A search on "smokers" turns up, among others, The Smokers and the Drinker a c. 1650 etching.

http://www.thinker.org/imagebase/index-2.html

The Simpsons vs. Smoking
It has always amazed me that even though The Simpsons is classified as a "childrens/family" cartoon, a great number of the characters are seen smoking. An astonishingly huge compilation (from 1994) of smoking characters on the show. From Stuart Jackson from The Simpsons Archive . (Thanks, LB!)
http://www.snpp.com/guides/smoking.simpsons.html

The Oregon Mint-Snuff Co.
When it's time for a cigarette or a chew of tobacco, "Pop a Pouch" instead! A non-tobacco alternative & quit-snuff aid, of which there are very few. A lot of issues with this kind of product: Mass distribution would be through tobacco-and-candy wholesalers. When does it become a "starter" product? etc. OMS seems to be doing it right, trying to distribute through health care professionals. Contact them.
http://www.mintsnuff.com/

Tobacco: Behind the Smoke and Mirrors
Visual Mentor's mission is "to develop a highly visual k-12 curriculum, that combines advanced computer graphics and visual effects with dramatic story lines."

The tobacco industry has succeeded where many health education programs have failed because they capitalize on the deep social needs that most compel adolescents: to fit in, to exert independence from parental control, and to demonstrate physical agility and sexual allure. These motivational techniques are mirrored in Tobacco: Behind the Smoke and Mirrors. However, in a strategy of reversal, we will show not how smoking makes a teen "belong," but how it induces social scorn and ostracization; not how smoking liberates adolescents from adult control, but how it makes them dependent customers of tobacco companies; not how smoking enhances their physical and sexual identity, but instead takes a toll on their prowess and looks right now, not in some conjectured future as an adult.

LESLIE NUCHOW: SLAM! Music

SLAM! A group of musicians and community activists responding to the formation of Virginia Slims' new record label, WomanThing Music. . . Leslie's first CD, Tenderland, now available from SLAM! Records

"Up in Smoke"
Paul Richmond and Jody Scalise take their show on the road throughout Massachusetts, using theater skits, mime, circus arts, comedy, rap and rock and roll music. to teach a few tricks about tobacco Break a leg!
http://www.shows4allages.com/

PUBLIC CITIZEN's Tobacco-Related Documents
Fact Sheets, Alerts, Documents, Testimony, more. Very rich, from Ralph Nader's group.
http://www.citizen.org/Tobacco/tobacco_merge.htm

Public Citizen's FDA Tobacco Regulations Page
http://www.citizen.org/public_citizen/litigation/tobacco_doc.htm...

Essential Information
Founded in 1982 by Ralph Nader, EI provides a number of resources and services for grassroots orgs. Among those hosted:

Action for Corporate Accountability, Americans Against Political Corruption, Congressional Accountability Project, Media Access Project, Multinationals Resource Center, The Multinational Monitor, Public Citizen, Public Interest Research Groups, etc. And they're ready willing and able to host YOUR tobacco control group on the web!

ABC-TV's Month-long March Against Drugs
"How to Raise Drug-free Kids" includes nicotine and alcohol. Other TV programs this month have raised the issue of marketing pharmaceuticals and other drugs as if they were candy to be popped for the slightest physical, mental or social discomfort. The entire continuum of drug promotion and marketing seems to be recognized by ABC, in opposition to some of their own sponsors. Watta Network!
http://abc.go.com/marchagainstdrugs/index.html

Starr Watch
The Nation's roundup of articles and info on tobacco industry lawyer (argued the Castano case in New Orleans) and Whitewater Independent Counsel Kenneth Starr.
http://thenation.com/extra/starr/starr.htm

The Catholic Church's Handbook on Ethics in Advertising
Advertising Age, March 3, 1997. The full text of the Pontifical Council For Social Communications's handbook. Nothing about tobacco, just sections advertisers, PR firms, media outlets and models might contemplate, including: Truthfulness in Advertising
The Dignity of the Human Person
Advertising and Social Responsibility. . . . we point to this fundamental principle for people engaged in advertising: advertisers -- that is, those who commission, prepare or disseminate advertising -- are morally responsible for what they seek to move people to do; and this is a responsibility also shared by publishers, broadcasting executives, and others in the communications world, as well as by those who give commercial or political endorsements . . .
http://adage.com/news_and_features/features/19970303/article8.ht...

Snuff Out Cigarette-Caused Fires!
Fire-Safety activism from Tobacco Free New York. Quick, simple way to send an e-postcard to Gov. Pataki to sign the Assembly's fire-safe legislation. Nicely done.
http://www.tobaccofreeny.org/postcard.asp

College Fire Safety.com
Dorm fire focus
http://www.collegefiresafety.org/smoking.html

National Fire Protection Association (NFPA)
Very little on cigarettes--but the current Jan/Feb 1998 issue of the NFPA Journal contains, Cigarettes Kill: the Other Way, (not online yet) by John R. Hall, Jr., pp. 56-62.; to get a copy of this article, and/or the complete smoking material fires report, call Nancy Schwartz at the NFPA One Stop Data Shop at 617-984-7450. There are additional Internet Fire sites and discussion groups here
http://www.nfpa.org/

Joe Camel: Subliminally Obvious
Some pretty funny playing around with the icon, plus a few interesting camel-marketing links--a funny Secondhand Smoke Found to Cause Secondhand Coolness from the Madison, WI Onion and even a link to a company that's taken www.joecamel.com

I remembered how Sean Connery as James Bond could move his eyebrows so expressively. So I ripped off his eyes and eyebrows and Don Johnson's hair. ...how I personally feel about being known for this piece of crap that people think is great advertising. It's a pretty shitty piece of art." -- Mike Salisbury, creator of US artwork

MARLBORO Unlimited Power: Political Buying Guide
Hilarious spoof of the "Miles" promotion. Forcing an organization (the Red Cross) not to concentrate on notifying the public on the dangers of Tobacco only costs 8,000,000 miles ($400,000)! More, from Fade2Black (Thanks, JK!)
http://www2.nis.net/fadetoblack/marlboro/

Nymox Pharmaceutical Corporation

Nymox is currently offering two products, AlzheimAlert(TM) and NicAlert(TM). . . NicAlert(TM) is a simple, easy-to-read test strip that uses either a saliva or a urine sample to determine smoking status. Its applications include helping parents check whether their teenaged children are smoking, enabling teachers and high school coaches to test high school athletes for smoking or other tobacco product use, verifying smoking status for insurance applications; and testing subjects in tobacco research studies.

Advertising Ethics
Book list
http://advertising.utexas.edu/research/biblio/Ethics.html

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