Ashes to ashes : : the history of smoking and health : Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / / edited by S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds, and E. M. Tansey.

• Superior document: The Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine
• TeilnehmendeR: Lock, Stephen,; Reynolds, L. A.,; Tansey, E. M.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, Atlanta, GA : : Rodopi,, 1998.
• Year of Publication: 1998
• Language: English
• Series: Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource.

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.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Contributors / S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey -- 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 / 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 / Christopher C. Booth -- Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking / 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 / 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 / S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds and E. M. Tansey.