tobacco

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• SOURCE: Truth Out
  3/21/19
  

  Cigarettes Are Central to the History of Corporate Power

  In Cigarettes, Inc.: An Intimate History of Corporate Imperialism, author Nan Enstad reveals how the definitive moments in the expansion of corporate power took place through one of the deadliest commodities.

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• 6-16-14
  

  A Historian Writes a History of a Tobacco Company and Never Mentions Lung Cancer?

  by Daniel J. Robinson

  Would it surprise you to learn that a university historian published a book on Canada's largest tobacco firm that never once mentioned lung cancer?

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• SOURCE: WGBH
  2-11-14
  

  Thank You For Not Selling: Historian Nancy Koehn On CVS' Tobacco Ban

  Harvard Business School historian Nancy Koehn: "a supremely wise and forward thinking move.

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• 6-17-13
  

  Canadian Historians: Come Clean About Your Relationship with Big Tobacco

  by Daniel J. Robinson

  Image via Shutterstock.Later this month, Acadia University historian and former Dean of Arts Robert Perrins will testify in a Montreal courtroom on behalf of the tobacco industry. There he will discuss his 400+-page expert witness report on the Canadian government’s handling of tobacco issues since the 1950s.  The year-long trial involves two class-action suits seeking to compensate Quebec smokers for nicotine addiction and disease caused by smoking. The combined claim at $27 billion is the largest in Canadian history.