Tobacco Legacy Library [all smoke and mirrors?]
Posted by Celia Walter | 16 Apr, 2010Tobacco Legacy Library A digital library maintained by the University of California, San Francisco which provides free acess to 1,000s of documents relating to the tobacco industry which were produced by major companies such as British American Tobacco. They include materials relating to advertising, manufacturing, marketing, sales, and scientific research activities. They include trials, regulation by the state, documents seeking to promote smoking and cigarettes. There is an interesting collection of popular documents which focuses on the marketing of smoking to women, smoking and product placement in films and industry and scientific documents relating to passive smoking. Additional features of the site include the Tobacco documents bibliography which indexes and lists recent research articles and other publications on all aspects of the topic. And an excellent directory of links to related websites. http://legacy.library.ucsf.edu/
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