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Wellcome Institute series in the history of medicine

Ashes to ashes : the history of smoking and health Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / edited by S. Lock, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey.

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking : the transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use, 1890-2016 / Thomas R. Marshall.

A historical evaluation on the reports of the Royal College of Physicians on smoking and health / Alan McGlennan.

The relationship between population characteristics, low birth weight, cigarette smoking in pregnancy, and public health messages discouraging their use : an historical perspective / by Elizabeth J. Thomson.

Deadly enemies : tobacco and its opponents in Australia / Ian Tyrrell.

High society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture / by Mike Jay.

<p>Penny Tinkler charts women's changing relationship to tobacco from the 1880s to the 1980s during which smoking transformed from a male practice to one enjoyed by both sexes. Focusing on the feminisation of cigarette smoking, the author unravels the role of visual culture and the impact of social, economic and medical changes.</p>

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Smoke signals : women, smoking and visual culture in Britain / Penny Tinkler.

Tobacco : a history / V.G. Kiernan.

A volume of smoke in two puffs : with stray whiffs from the same pipe / [Henry Walker].

pages 233-243 : illustrations, facsimiles, portraits ; 25 cm

Morbid cravings : the emergence of addiction / Virginia Berridge.

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Ashes to ashes : the history of smoking and health Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / edited by S. Lock, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey.

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking : the transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use, 1890-2016 / Thomas R. Marshall.

A historical evaluation on the reports of the Royal College of Physicians on smoking and health / Alan McGlennan.

The relationship between population characteristics, low birth weight, cigarette smoking in pregnancy, and public health messages discouraging their use : an historical perspective / by Elizabeth J. Thomson.

Deadly enemies : tobacco and its opponents in Australia / Ian Tyrrell.

High society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture / by Mike Jay.

Smoke signals : women, smoking and visual culture in Britain / Penny Tinkler.

Tobacco : a history / V.G. Kiernan.

A volume of smoke in two puffs : with stray whiffs from the same pipe / [Henry Walker].

Morbid cravings : the emergence of addiction / Virginia Berridge.

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Ashes to ashes : the history of smoking and health Symposium and Witness Seminar organized by the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine and the History of Twentieth Century Medicine Group on 26-27 April 1995 / edited by S. Lock, L.A. Reynolds and E.M. Tansey.

Public opinion, public policy, and smoking : the transformation of American attitudes and cigarette use, 1890-2016 / Thomas R. Marshall.

A historical evaluation on the reports of the Royal College of Physicians on smoking and health / Alan McGlennan.

The relationship between population characteristics, low birth weight, cigarette smoking in pregnancy, and public health messages discouraging their use : an historical perspective / by Elizabeth J. Thomson.

Deadly enemies : tobacco and its opponents in Australia / Ian Tyrrell.

High society : mind-altering drugs in history and culture / by Mike Jay.

Smoke signals : women, smoking and visual culture in Britain / Penny Tinkler.

Tobacco : a history / V.G. Kiernan.

A volume of smoke in two puffs : with stray whiffs from the same pipe / [Henry Walker].

Morbid cravings : the emergence of addiction / Virginia Berridge.

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