The National Tobacco Museum
Channel: Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society
Date: 2013-04-08

A mainstay of the American economy for more than 300 years, tobacco also became America's leading cause of death and disease by the late-20th century. Since even before the publication of the Surgeon General's Report on Smoking and Health in 1964, Dr. Alan Blum has been tracking the tobacco industry like a parasitic disease, amassing the world's largest archive of cigarette advertising and promotion as well as efforts to prevent and counteract this costly addiction.  Dr. Blum's aim has been to create a National Tobacco Museum to explore from every angle the impact of the cigarette on society.  The original concept of a brick-and-mortar Museum is discussed in these three television stories in Houston, Texas from 1998.  Today's plans for an online National Tobacco Museum are moving forward with the Roswell Park Cancer Institute.  Comments, ideas, and support from the public are welcome.

Write Dr. Blum at ablum@cchs.ua.edu