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• "Cartoonists Take Up Smoking"  

The National Museum of Health and Medicine recently opened "Cartoonists Take Up Smoking," an exhibition of original newspaper editorial cartoons on a single theme, presented by Alan Blum, M.D., one of the nation's foremost authorities on the history of the tobacco industry and the battle over smoking.

The exhibit retraces the 40-year battle over the use and promotion of cigarettes since the publication of the landmark Surgeon General's report on smoking and health in 1964. The exhibit also addresses complacency on the part of organized medicine, politicians, and the mass media in ending the tobacco pandemic. . . .

Can You Cartoon? We asked visitors to the exhibition to draw their own cartoons about smoking to hang in the gallery.

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