topic:"Health and Social Development" found 4 records - Research Collections

Abstract: In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and 1970s. In Cigarette Nation, Daniel Robinson examines the vibrant and contentious history of smoking to discover why Canadians continued to light up despite the publicized health risks. Highlighting the prolific marketing and advertising practices that helped make smoking a staple of everyday life, Robinson explores socio-cultural aspects of cigarette use from the 1930s to the 1950s and recounts the views and actions of tobacco executives, government officials, and Canadian smokers as they responded to mounting evidence that cigarette use was harmful. The persistence of smoking owes to such factors as product development, marketing and retailing innovation, public relations, sponsored science, and government inaction. Domestic and international tobacco firms worked to furnish Canadian smokers with hope and doubt - hope in the form of reassuring marketing, as seen with light and mild cigarette brands, and doubt by means of disinformation campaigns attacking medical research and press accounts that aligned cigarettes with serious disease. Drawing on a wide range of primary sources, including thousands of industry records released during a landmark tobacco class-action trial in 2015, Cigarette Nation documents in rich detail the history of one of Canada's foremost public health issues. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: Depression-era cigarette marketing and smoking culture -- The gift of wartime cigarettes -- The incomparable cigarette -- Taxes, public smoking, and lung cancer -- Hope and doubt -- Marketing bonanza -- The view from Ottawa.

ISBN: 9780228005322

Accession Number: P2024.02

Call Number: 08.1 R56c

Collection: Archives Library

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Pleasure and panic : new essays on the history of alcohol and drugs

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: 2022

Author: Malleck, Dan and Krasnick Warsh, Cheryl

Publisher: Vancouver [British Columbia] ; Toronto [Ontario] : UBC Press

Call Number: 08.1 M29p

Author: Malleck, Dan and Krasnick Warsh, Cheryl

Publisher: Vancouver [British Columbia] ; Toronto [Ontario] : UBC Press

Published Date: 2022

Physical Description: viii, 313 pages ; 24 cm

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Canada; History-Canada; Health; Health and Social Development; Health and wellness; Drugs; Prohibition; Law

Abstract: Booze, dope, smokes, and weed. Mind-altering, mood-changing substances have been part of human society for millennia. Pleasure and Panic reveals how attitudes toward drug and alcohol consumption have always been deeply embedded in cultural fears and social, political, and economic disparities. Contributors to this collection explore how drugs and alcohol intersect with diverse histories, including gender, medicine, popular culture, and business. Pleasure and Panic brings a dispassionate voice to current debates about liberalizing drug and alcohol laws and challenges existing ideas about how to deal with the so-called problems of drug and alcohol use. -- Provided by publisher.

Contents: The transgressive woman: gender, class, alcohol, and drugs in Canada from 1850 / Cheryl Krasnick Warsh -- "To find out the best men and to try to get them in": Women, temperance, and politics in Manchester, 1873-1919 / Cynthia Belaskie -- Youth, drugs, and surveillance at Manseau's Woodstock Pop Festival / Eric Fillion -- John Lennon, the Le Dain Commission, and the rise of the celebrity activist / Greg Marquis -- Manhood, drink, and the "medical heresy" of US Army surgeon James Mann (1812-16) / Renée Lafferty-Salhany -- Medicinal purposes: pharmacists, professionalism, and liquor laws in victorian Ontario / Dan Malleck -- A new perspective on harm reduction: George Peters and the Chicago LSD rescue service / Chris Elcock -- Flogging a dead horse? Adulteration and brewing in nineteenth-century England / Jonathan Reinarz -- Charlie Wing and the Alberta Liquor Control Board: The story of the first Chinese-Canadian hotel licensee in Post-prohibition Alberta / Sarah E. Hamill -- The rise of the "Big Three": The emergence of a Canadian brewing oligopoly, 1945-62 / Matthew J. Bellamy.

ISBN: 9780774867528

Accession Number: P2024.02

Call Number: 08.1 M29p

Collection: Archives Library

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Rockies Health Summer 2017

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Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Published Date: Summer 2017

Author: Glasnovic, Jamey; Arsenault, Danielle

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Outlook

Call Number: 02.8 G46r PAM

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Author: Glasnovic, Jamey; Arsenault, Danielle

Responsibility: Jamey Glasnovic; Danielle Arsenault

Publisher: Rocky Mountain Outlook

Published Date: Summer 2017

Physical Description: 23 pages ; illus.

Medium: Library - Book (including soft-cover and pamphlets)

Subjects: Health; Health and wellness; Health and Social Development; Bow Valley; Banff (residents); Canmore

Abstract: Pertains to heath concerns and tips for people living in the Bow Valley

Contents: Coming of Age; Valley Greens; Cacao; Cross Training; Calendar of Events

Call Number: 02.8 G46r PAM

Collection: Archives Library

URL Notes: Available online via Rocky Mountain Outlook Rockies Health webpage

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