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[Asia, China] In History Departments, It’s Up With Capitalism

Nan Enstad’s book in progress, “The Jim Crow Cigarette: Following Tobacco Road From North Carolina to China and Back,” examines how Southern tobacco workers, and Southern racial ideology, helped build the Chinese cigarette industry in the early 20th centu
New York Times
added Apr 7, 2013 10:17
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[New York] Snapshot: ‘Woman at a Counter Smoking, NYC, 1962’ ($$)

Diane Arbus’s fame .... An online auction of her work organised by Christie’s, including 40 of her best-known pictures as well as the image above, Woman at a Counter Smoking, NYC, 1962, runs until April 12. Estimates range from $4,000-$9,000.
Financial Times (uk)
added Apr 5, 2013 14:55
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ARCHIVE: MEANINGS & MOTIVES Experts Debating Tobacco Addiction (10/1/2008) [FREE FULL TEXT]

We investigated influences on these opposing definitions and their application in expert witness testimony in litigation in the 1990s and 2000s. ... WHEN 7 TOBACCO INDUSTRY chief executive officers (CEOs) swore before the US Congress in 1994 that nicotin
National Center for Biotechnology Information (NCBI)
added Apr 4, 2013 12:04
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[Canada] Day 132: Dependence

you can imagine what today's hearing was like at the Montreal tobacco trials, as lawyers for the defendant tobacco companies completed their cross examination of the plaintiffs' expert witness in addiction, Dr. Juan Negrete. There was very little new gro
Eye on the Trials (ASPQ) (ca)
added Apr 4, 2013 11:46
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[UK, USA] Matthew Weiner, season six of Mad Men and why Don Draper’s ahead of his time

As Mad Men returns, its creator Matthew Weiner talks about his Sixties fetish, battling the TV network, and why he feels guilty about making smoking cool
Times Of London (uk)
added Apr 4, 2013 09:48
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GRAPHICS: Cigarette branding through the years

Jackie Robinson endorses Chesterfield in this cigarette ad produced in New York City, circa 1948. Photo: Transcendental Graphics, Getty Images
San Antonio (TX) Express-News
added Apr 4, 2013 07:27
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Yabba Dabba Cough! Flashback to When The Flintstones Shilled Cigarettes

In 1970, Congress passed an Act banning the advertisements of cigarettes on television and radio. Although they never actually showed Barney getting lung cancer, in 1986, the Flintstones did a PSA for the American Cancer Association. In fact, when the se
Advertising Age
added Apr 3, 2013 13:34
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How should times dictate smoking fight? Your Say Interactive

As attitudes toward smoking have shifted (see graphic above), methods for curbing the habit, it seems, have gotten more drastic.
USA Today
added Apr 3, 2013 03:27
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[Israel, Poland] Warsaw ghetto hero, a 'Cigarette Seller,' dies

Hochman, whose story was told in Joseph Zhimian’s 1962 book “The Cigarette Sellers of Three Crosses Square,” was one of a group of youths who escaped the Warsaw Ghetto in 1942, assumed false Aryan identities and survived by peddling cigarettes.
Times of Israel (is)
added Apr 2, 2013 12:32
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[New York] Bloomberg: 6,000 more bars and restaurants in NYC since 2003 smoking ban

Mayor Michael Bloomberg said there's strong economic proof that the 2003 Smoke-Free Air Act is responsible for a 47 percent surge in the number of restaurants and bars in the city. The 6,000 additional restaurants and bars are responding to a demand from
Staten Island (NY) Advance
added Apr 1, 2013 10:00
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