1964 NBC Special Report on Surgeon General's Smoking Report
Channel: Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
Date: 2017-03-06

Aired on the day the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health was released to the public in 1964.

Alan Blum, MD, Professor and Gerald Leon Wallace M.D. Endowed Chair in Family Medicine at the University of Alabama, is one of the foremost authorities on the history of tobacco use, cigarette marketing, and strategies to end the smoking pandemic. Since 1998 he has directed the Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, which comprises the world’s largest collection of original documents, artifacts, images and frontline reports on the tobacco industry and the anti-smoking movement.

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