The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society

Repository for historical and contemporary materials on the role and influence of tobacco in U.S. society

[West Wing Report (Edited by Paul Brandus) @WestWingReport]

Richard Nixon signed a bill - this day 1970 - banning cigarette ads on radio and TV. It meant no more commercials with Fred Flintstone lighting up:
https://t.co/DDZi60cCed

[The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society @UA_CSTS]

Ronald Reagan (40th president of the United States) featured in a #Cigar Institute of America advertisement from 1951.

#PresidentsDay

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A happy #ValentinesDay2022 from your sweethearts at @UA_CSTS!

Be sure to check out our gallery of #smoking themed greeting cards: https://t.co/BPAitT7HQL

Also, look out for our exhibition on #Women and #Tobacco coming soon.

#valentinesday

[The Cancer Letter @TheCancerLetter]

The unKOOL, unfiltered history of #menthol cigarettes. Guest editorial by Alan Blum (@UA_CSTS). #EndTobacco #LungHealth
https://t.co/SonMsY72ZP

[U.S. FDA @FDA]

Today, @FDATobacco announced the agency’s commitment to evidence-based actions aimed at saving lives and preventing future generations of smokers: https://t.co/Lh7nuf9Qea

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With the @US_FDA moving to place a ban on #menthol in #cigarettes we invite you to view our exhibition on the targeting of minorities by the tobacco industry.
https://t.co/qXIHCEpwJm

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#InternationalWomensDay Explore how Philip Morris co-opted women's liberation to push cigarettes by introducing Virginia Slims
https://t.co/Z9jG9HsSaL

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With the #Masters2020 being played in Augusta this weekend we look back 50 years to this issue of Golf Digest from September 1970 featuring two-time #GreenJacket winner Ben Hogan.

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@TheCancerLetter @uabmedicine @UTHealth A correction if you will permit us, Dr. Blum is not affiliated with @uabmedicine he is the Dr. Gerald Leon Wallace Endowed Chair in Family Medicine at @UA_CCHS

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The Crimson Tide begin their 2020 football season this Saturday.🏈 Look back to the cigarette ads in UA's gameday programs from the @bryantmuseum in our exhibition https://t.co/76Iuush60i

[The Cancer Letter @TheCancerLetter]

In which Alan Blum (@uabmedicine) and Eric Solberg (@UTHealth) ask: Should anyone really be surprised that when it comes to public health and health care, money and politics take precedence over science? https://t.co/C0nQFjOk51 (@UA_CSTS)

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As football returns (#Kickoff2020) take a moment to look at our collection of football themed Cigarette ads featuring programs from @bryantmuseum. #nfl #footballisback #football

https://t.co/76Iuush60i

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An example of one of Willis Shook's series of anti-smoking illustrations that could be reprinted in turn of the 20th century newspapers. Circa 1910.

https://t.co/lCMUIRHXHG

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Even we make mistakes! Learn more about how one of our favorite items turned out to be something much more than even we knew. https://t.co/iNvrVaCpQk

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Today we honor our nation's #Veterans and thank them for their service. Last year CSTS debuted an exhibition The Makin's of a Nation: Tobacco in WWI (https://t.co/v5uFP7dnqx) that traces the origins of the cigarette pandemic to the trenches of World War I.

[The Cancer Letter @TheCancerLetter]

What do #PhilipMorris and the Sacklers have in common? @UA_CSTS's Dr. Alan Blum: "For the past half-century, the money doled out by this super-patron of the arts has helped burnish the company’s nicotine-stained image." - https://t.co/UsialWTca4

[The Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society @UA_CSTS]

Hey @TheCancerLetter, thanks for sharing Dr. Blum's article! We're sure the people @uamshealth do fine work, but that's not us! We're proud to be with the @UofAlabama! If you want to know more about the Tobacco Industry's support of the arts visit: https://t.co/TXa2SxhuUQ

[The Cancer Letter @TheCancerLetter]

"Museum malignancy: What the Sacklers and Philip Morris have in common" - Guest editorial by @uamshealth's Alan Blum, Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society https://t.co/UsialWTca4

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#doingourpart #thinkofthechildren

[Michael Siegel @mbsiegel]

New Organization Forms to Confront the Epidemic of Popcorn Lung @LungPopcorn https://t.co/mHyNchMgfg @LungAssociation Join Now to Save the Kids

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Museum Malignancy: #TobaccoIndustry Sponsorship of the Arts, is now online https://t.co/4Spy5mliiA , the exhibition explores the collaboration between #art #museums and the maker of the world's top-selling #cigarette, #Marlboro

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#OnThisDay in 2010, a #Christmas-themed Heineken #beer ad appeared in Sports Illustrated, heralding the start of the #holidayseason. #HolidaysAreComing