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.
• Other title: Preliminary Material --; Contributors /; Introduction /; Webs of Drug Dependence: Towards a Political History of Tobacco /; ‘A Microbe of the Devil's Own Make’: Religion and Science in the British Anti-Tobacco Movement, 1853–1908 /; The Moral Symbolism of Tobacco in Dutch Genre Painting /; Tobacco and Victorian Literature /; Pushing the Weed: The Editorializing and Advertising of Tobacco in the Lancet and the British Medical Journal, 1880–1958 /; The First Reports on Smoking and Lung Cancer /; Science and Policy: The Case of Postwar British Smoking Policy /; Blow Some My Way: Passive Smoking, Risk and American Culture /; Smoking and the Royal College of Physicians /; Ashes to Ashes: Witness on Smoking /; The Story of the Reports on Smoking and Health by the Royal College of Physicians /; ASH: Witness on Smoking /; Austin Bradford Hill and the Nobel Prize /; Horace Joules’ Role in the Control of Cigarette Smoking /; The History of the Norwegian Ban on Tobacco Advertising /; Concluding Remarks /; Index /
• ISBN: 9004418555
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: edited by S. Lock, L. A. Reynolds, and E. M. Tansey.

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.