The 1964 confidential memo on the U.S. tobacco industry, written by a team from the UK tobacco industry.

Tobacco Timeline; extensive yet concise timeline of key dates in tobacco history.

Outline of tobacco and tobacco industry history shows trends.

An annotated bibliography of websites with information on the history of tobacco.

An account of the development of the use of the drug in the western world.

From the 1972 Consumers Union report on licit and illicit drugs.

Exploration of the culture of tobacco in Europe during the 17th and 18th centuries. From the New York Public Library, and based on an exhibit held there in 1997.

The scientific studies on the health effects of tobacco go back to 1938, but few papers were running stories about it: their leading advertisers were the tobacco companies. George Seldes (1890-1995) was an exception; a set of his tobacco stories from 1940 to 1950 is reprinted here.

Reprinting of the Tobacco Timeline.

From the Schaffer Library of Drug Policy; covers the 1600s through the mid 1970s.

Matthew Hilton examines the mystique surrounding tobacco, the history of tobacco industry, government and consumer actions on smoking in the UK.

Richard Peto was one of the first to realize that tobacco products were killing their customers; interview covers the discovery, public health and public policy, and the sheer size of tobacco death.

A Review of the 40 years since the publication of the 1962 Report of the Royal College of Physicians on Smoking and Health (UK). The original publication is presented along with some analysis on what happened since.

Dr. Victor DeNoble, a former senior scientist at Philip Morris, tells his story.

Chapter from a book on the Brown and Williamson papers documents how the tobacco industry responded in the 1950s and 1960s to the emerging medical evidence about the product.

Report about anti-tobacco public health program in Germany from 1933-45, supported by Nazi medical and military leaders as part of their concern for racial and bodily purity.

Showcases the contrast between the tobacco industry's private knowledge and its public statements over the past 50 years.

Letter to the British medical Journal reviews some tobacco, medical, and public policy history: "good evidence showed that smoking causes lung cancer; the media's response to this information was initially resistant; specious arguments were used to detract from the real issue, which confused the general public and lessened its concern; after 40 years there has been little change in smoking rates."

Article originally published in 1965 in the Atlantic Monthly looks at the tobacco industry's power in Congress.

Essay surveys the history and effects of tobacco use.

Colorful web site provides a capsule history of tobacco, from 1492 to 1988. Where did the tobacco industry as we know it come from, and when and how did the existence of tobacco turn into the selling and promotion of tobacco? This site has answers.

Article from the Palm Beach Post covers the use of paid media by the industry and by anti-smoking campaigns.

A growing collection of pre-1960's print tobacco marketing.

Journal article explores "deception on a grand scale": the history of tobacco and smoking before and after the emergence of the modern tobacco industry.

Collection of links to histories.

Column on legal affairs reviews history of tobacco industry and its lawyers.

Book on the California tobacco history from the 1970s on. book information, reviews, ordering information.

Complete, online book by Glantz and Birnbach provides over 30 years of experience gained in tobacco control in California.

Former President and Nobel Prize winner Jimmy Carter surveys tobacco history, and concludes that the tobacco industry cannot be trusted.