A Revolutionary Attack on Tobacco

Bolshevik Antismoking Campaigns in the 1920s

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ID11031343
AutoresTricia Starks (0000-0003-4633-8464, University of Arkansas at Fayetteville, autor de correspondencia), Tricia A Starks (Tricia Starks is with the Department of History, University of Arkansas, Fayetteville.)
Año2017
Volumen107
Número11
Páginas1711-1717
Fecha de publicación2017-11-01
Peer ReviewedSí
Open AccessNo
TipoARTICLE
RevistaAmerican Journal of Public Health (JOURNAL)
Identificadores de la revistaISSN: 0090-0036 • E-ISSN: 1541-0048
EditorialAmerican Public Health Association (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.2105/ajph.2017.304048
PMID28933924
OpenAlexW2757197269
IdiomaEN
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Referencias citadas2

Using archival records of the Commissariat of Public Health, journals, and propaganda materials from the antismoking campaign of the Soviet 1920s, this article argues that the revolutionary state pursued an antitobacco policy unique in the world in its attack on tobacco use at a national scale. The commissar of public health, Nikolai Alexandrovich Semashko, attempted to severely curtail tobacco cultivation and production, limit tobacco sales, and create a public opinion against tobacco with a propaganda campaign. Even in failing in its farther-reaching goals, the policy proved one of the most forward in terms of antismoking propaganda and state-sponsored treatment regimens, with the distribution of antismoking posters, pamphlets, articles, plays, and films as well as the creation of special state-sponsored smoking-cessation programs that boasted high success rates

Environmental health · Political science · Politics · Public health · Public opinion · State (computer science) · Tobacco control · Tobacco industry · Tobacco use · Culinary Culture and Tourism · Historical Studies on Reproduction, Gender, Health, and Societal Changes · Law · Medicine · Philippine History and Culture

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