Stories
- In pictures
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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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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Public health campaigns and the ‘threat’ of disability
By continuing to represent disability as the feared outcome of disease, public health campaigns help to perpetuate prejudice against disabled people.
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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.
Catalogue
- Books
Tobacco advertising : international "evidence" fails to link tobacco advertising and overall consumption / Tobacco Advisory Council.
Date: [1992?]- Journals
Tobacco alert / World Health Organization.
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Tobacco : a catalogue of the books, manuscripts, and engravings acquired since 1942 in the Arents Tobacco Collection at the New York Public Library, from 1507 to the present / compiled by Sarah Augusta Dickson.
New York Public Library.Date: 1958-1968- Books
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Tobacco, a poem.
Lacy, John, merchantDate: [1669]- Books
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Tobacco / Arlene Hirschfelder.
Hirschfelder, Arlene B.Date: [2010], ©2010