Browse Exhibits (2 total)

Fault - Tennis, Tobacco and Virginia Slims

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Formed in 1970, the Virginia Slims Tennis Circuit was a tennis tour consisting of nine professional women’s tennis players. Founded in part as a response to dramatic underpayment of women athletes and in part as a marketing ploy for Philip Morris’ Virginia Slims cigarettes (principally targeted at women), the Virginia Slims Tennis Circuit would go on to form the basis of the modern Women’s Tennis Association.

This exhibition tracks the evolution of the Virginia Slims Tennis Circuit and the protests against its sponsor by Doctors Ought to Care and other organizations from the 1970s to the 1990s.

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Medical Journal Editorship

Medical Journal Editorship Collection of Alan Blum, MD

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This collection is comprised of items relating to Dr. Alan Blum’s editorship of the Medical Journal of Australia (1982-1983) and the New York State Journal of Medicine (1983-1985), during which he produced the first three theme issues at any medical journal about the world cigarette pandemic. The collection includes complete scanned copies of the three tobacco theme issues, correspondence with authors of articles in these issues, laudatory letters from national and international public health leaders, news coverage of the issues, and reviews of The Cigarette Underworld,  a book based on the first tobacco theme issue at the New York State Journal of Medicine.

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