Smoke Ring
From American Tobacco to Japanese Data
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4748155 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Sarah Milov (Thales (Australia), corresponding author) |
| Year | 2018 |
| Volume | 33 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 319-339 |
| Publication date | 2018-10-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | No |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Osiris (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0369-7827 • E-ISSN: 1933-8287 |
| Publisher | University of Chicago Press (PUBLISHER • US) |
| DOI | 10.1086/699948 |
| OpenAlex | W2898505520 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 27 |
This article explores the political, legal, and social history of the 1981 “Japanese Smokers’ Wives Study.” This large-scale cohort study, led by Takeshi Hirayama, chief epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute in Tokyo, found that the nonsmoking wives of smokers were themselves at greater risk for developing lung cancer. The study was successfully used by American anti-tobacco activists to regulate indoor smoking during the 1980s. Taking a transnational approach, the article explores the complex, multilayered relationship between American tobacco production, Japanese epidemiology, and American tobacco restriction. It argues that smoking and anti-smoking in the United States and Japan have produced each other through flows of tobacco and epidemiological data. In the postwar era, Japanese cigarettes were increasingly filled with American-grown tobacco as part of aid packages, or sold to the Japanese Tobacco Monopoly. The subject population of the study was made, in part, by American tobacco producers. Meanwhile Americans who lived under an expanding umbrella of tobacco ordinances in the 1980s were made by Japanese tobacco consumers. The circulation of tobacco from American farms to Japanese bodies, from leaf to epidemiological data, is a window into the coproduction of science and capitalism in the second half of the twentieth century
Capitalism · Economic history · Environmental health · Political science · Politics · Population · Public health · Tobacco control · Tobacco industry · Tobacco smoke · History · Law · Medicine · Race, Genetics, and Society · Epidemiology
The New Transnational Activism
Rising Life Expectancy
A Government Out of Sight
Non-smoking wives of heavy smokers have a higher risk of lung cancer
Lung Cancer and Other Causes of Death in Relation to Smoking
Bringing the State Back In
Suffering Made Real
The Logic of Collective Action
Minamata
Methods and Management
Becoming the Framingham Study 1947–1950
Food for War—Food for Peace
The Myth of the “Weak” American State
The Politics of Altruism
| Unique citing works | 1 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,14 |
| Citation span | 2019 - 2019 (1) |
| Citation velocity | historical |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 1 |