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A medical history of smoking, from cure to killer
Today smoking is seen publicly as a deadly vice, privately perhaps as more of a guilty pleasure. Follow tobacco’s journey over the centuries from medical remedy to killer carcinogen.
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A brief history of ventilation
As ventilators continue to play an important part in helping very ill coronavirus patients, medical historian Dr Lindsey Fitzharris traces their development from the first attempts at mouth-to-mouth resuscitation through centuries of medical crises.
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Inhaling happiness and gasping for a high
The rapid, short-lived high we get from whippets, reefers and vapes can be accompanied by long-term health consequences. The search is on for safer ways to get stoned.
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A nose through Blythe House
Recently sold and emptied out, Blythe House was once one of the UK’s biggest museum storage facilities. Here, museum worker Laura Humphreys reflects on her relationship with the store’s architecture, objects and aromas.
Catalogue
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Tobacco smoke and involuntary smoking.
Date: 2004
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Cope's mixture : selected from his Tobacco Plant.
Cope's (Firm)Date: 1893- Books
Tobacco use by Native North Americans : sacred smoke and silent killer / edited by Joseph C. Winter.
Date: [2000], ©2000
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Tobacco: chemicals contained in its smoke and their effects on human health, especially the heart. Colour lithograph, 197- (?).
Date: [between 1970 and 1979?]Reference: 2002842i- Books
The Constituents of tobacco smoke : an annotated bibliography / edited by H.R. Bentley & E.G.N. Berry.
Date: 1959]