Leadership
Matthew Kohrman (Director) - Assistant Professor of Anthropology
Robert N. Proctor (Director) - Professor of History
Stephen P. Fortmann (Director) - C.F. Rehnborg Professor in Disease Prevention

Cigarettes are producing an unprecedented worldwide health catastrophe. Global traffic in cigarettes has tripled in the last fifty years, in large part because governments have become addicted to tobacco taxes, international trade agencies have promoted tobacco sales, and marketers have devised ever more deceptive tactics. Meanwhile, tobacco-induced diseases are besieging local communities around the world.