Medical Museum Science Café

When:
In person at NMHM
Thursday, June 22, 2023, 6-7 p.m.

Where:

National Museum of Health and Medicine
2500 Linden Lane
Silver Spring, Maryland 20910

And online - @MedicalMuseum on Facebook and Instagram

What:

Join Alan Blum, M.D., from the University of Alabama School of Medicine, and director for the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society, for a presentation that will discuss smoking in the military during World War I. From 1914 to 1918, the great empires of Europe clashed in a global conflict that involved more than 70 million soldiers and cost over 16 million lives. Tobacco also went to war, packed in every doughboy's knapsack. Through patriotic advertising and stepped-up production, cigarettes would supplant cigars and chewing tobacco as the young men's favorite vice. When the war ended, the soldiers' physical wounds would heal, but insidious diseases brought about by the increase in cigarette smoking would be a lasting legacy.

Cost:

FREE! Open to the public. No RSVP required.

Contact:

For more information, email USArmy.Detrick.MEDCOM-USAMRMC.List.Medical-Museum@health.mil

Request ADA accommodations five business days in advance at (301) 319-3303 or by email to: USArmy.Detrick.MEDCOM-USAMRMC.List.Medical-Museum@health.mil.

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