Tobacco in the Soviet media between Stalin and Khrushchev: Pravda 1945-1964
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Tobacco in the Soviet media between Stalin and Khrushchev Mateusz Zatoński, MA (Hons) MA MSc Public Health Candidate [email protected] Pravda 1945-1964
Transcript of Tobacco in the Soviet media between Stalin and Khrushchev: Pravda 1945-1964
Tobacco in the Soviet media between Stalin and Khrushchev
Mateusz Zatoński, MA (Hons) MA
MSc Public Health [email protected]
Pravda 1945-1964
Life expectancy at birth in selected countries, both sexes
Poland
Portugal
South Korea
Tunisia
Hungary
Sw eden
Russia
40
45
50
55
60
65
70
75
80
85
1940 1950 1960 1970 1980 1990 2000 2010 2020
Years
Source: http://www.gapminder.org/data /
Russia is one of the few countries in the world where life expectancy at birth has not increased in the last half-century.
This health disaster began in the early 1960s, during the high point of Communism, and not, as is often believed, at the time of the collapse of the Soviet Union.
The global trend of extraordinary health gain not found in Russia
Richard Cooper, Smoking in the Soviet Union, British Medical Journal 1982; 285: 549-551.
I.V. Stalin
Reading Eagle, 27 Apr 1942
Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, 15 Sep 1949
10/04/48
Smoking in Pravda 1948-1949:Importance of trade/production
Cigarette prices decrease by 10%
19/05/48
Letter to Stalin from tobacco industry employees
16/12/48
Jailing of Saratovo tobacco plant
director
28/04/49
Soviet cigarettes
at the international fair in
Poznan
16/01/48
Cigarettes in Birobidzhan
09/07/45
Smoking in Pravda 1945-1948:The Soviet Man and smoking
Good tractorists smoke a lot
21/08/48
New brands for Miners’
Day
19/07/45
Welcome home visitor
12/01/48
Smoking in Pravda 1948:The evil tobacco industry
05/07/48
American cigarettes and Italian elections
20/09/48
Cigarette prices up in Berlin and Paris
10/01/48
American cigarettes and Danish
cows
N.S. Khrushchev
The Nevada Daily Mail,30 Nov 1955
Billboard Music Week, 1 Dec 1962.
10/10/60
Smoking in Pravda 1960-1962:Importance of trade/production
Cigarettes in vending machines
28/02/62
Products of first necessity
11/12/62
12% increase in production
of cigarettes
28/01/60
Starodubsko Experimental
Tobacco Station
Smoking in Pravda 1960-1962:The Soviet Man and smoking
27/05/62
Smoking in fiction
07/08/61
German Titov and smoking
10/01/61
Smoking in Pravda 1960-1962:The evil tobacco industry
Wages in the USA
06/08/62
Scandal in Manilla
13/07/60
We are with you, Cuba!
• Brezhnev period
• 1980s smoking laws
• Use of economic lever?
• Nature of tobacco as commodity
Further research
