March 3, 2008

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Exhibit and Lecture Look at Cigarette Ads Featuring Physicians

“Not a Cough in a Carload: Images from the Campaign by the Tobacco Industry to Hide the Hazards of Smoking” will examine the use of images of physicians and medical information to sell cigarettes. Speaker Robert Jackler, of Stanford University School of Medicine, will be introduced by Allan Brandt, dean of the Graduate School of Arts and Sciences and the Amalie Moses Kass professor of the history of medicine in the Department of Social Medicine (in the Faculty of Medicine). The lecture takes place Monday, March 10, at 4:30 p.m. in the Armenise auditorium and will be followed by a wine and cheese reception. The talk coincides with a new exhibit in the basement of Gordon Hall featuring images from tobacco advertisements.

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