'Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health'

Series consists of papers, correspondence, photographs and cassette tapes related to the symposium (not seminar) on "Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health", which was held at the Wellcome Institute on 26 & 27 April 1995. The symposium was notionally part of the Wellcome Witnesses to Twentieth Century Medicine meetings also known as the Witness Seminars. However, unlike any of the other published seminars in that series, the transcripts were published in the Wellcome Institute's History of Medicine series. The published work was, S.P. Lock, L.A. Reynolds, and E.M. Tansey (editors), Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health, (London: Wellcome Trust, 1998).

The symposium was organised slightly differently to the Witness Seminars in that it had speakers, witnesses and participants. The speakers were; Dr Peter Bartrip (University of Oxford); Dr Virginia Berridge (London School of Hygiene & Tropical Medicine); Professor Hugh Cockerell (City University); Professor Sir Richard Doll (University of Oxford); Dr David Harley (University of Oxford); Dr Jordan Goodman (University of Manchester); Dr Matthew Hilton (University of Lancaster); Dr Simon Nightingale (University of Lancaster); Professor Sir Christopher Booth (Wellcome Institute/R.C.P.); Professor Allan Brandt (Harvard University); Professor Roy Porter (Wellcome Institute); and Mr Peter Taylor (London). The witnesses were; Sir Frances Avery Jones, Dr Kjell Bjartveit (Statens Helseundersokelser - Norwegian Hational health Screening Service), Sir John Crofton, Professor Sir Charles Fletcher; and Mr David Simpson (Director International A.S.H). The symposium was organised by Sr Stephen Lock.