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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.
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