In the early 1950s, cigarette companies in the US were starting to have a problem. For the first time, large-scale scientific studies were showing a link between cigarette smoking and lung cancer. The ...

Tobacco in industrializing America -- Tobacco's New Deal -- Cultivating the grower -- The challenge of the public interest -- Inventing the nonsmoker -- From rights to cost -- Shredding a net to build ...

The history of regulatory fights over tobacco products goes back to the earliest days of the U.S. What The Political History Of Tobacco In The US Means For E-Cigarettes The recent controversy around ...

Editor's Note: Sarah Milov, assistant professor of history at the University of Virginia and author of the forthcoming book, "The Cigarette: A Political History," provided extensive research material ...

Uptown was a mentholated cigarette brand designed and targeted to African American smokers by the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company in 1989. A coalition of Black community leaders in Philadelphia fought ...

NMAH copy purchased with funds from the NMAH Library Endowment. Traditional narratives of capitalist change often rely on the myth of the willful entrepreneur from the global North who transforms the ...

A recent Cancer Research study assessed the effect of tobacco smoking and electronic cigarette (e-cigarettes) use on DNA methylation changes associated with carcinogenesis. Study: Cigarette smoking ...

Each week brings a new story of some calamity brought by vaping. In late July, a Connecticut man filed suit against e-cigarette giant Juul Labs after suffering a massive stroke. The suit alleges that ...

The history of regulatory fights over tobacco products goes back to the earliest days of the U.S., University of Virginia assistant professor Sarah Milov writes in her new book “ The Cigarette: A ...