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Item Louisville's Black Laborers of the Campbell Tobacco Company, 1915-1930(2021-01-01) Riley, Jessica June; Scott, Michelle; History; Historical StudiesThis theses is a bottom-up narrative about the black tobacco workers of the Campbell Tobacco Company in Louisville Kentucky between 1915 and 1930. It focuses on the lived experiences and working conditions for these workers, specifically in the year 1920. This theses addresses the question: what happens when we explore tobacco labor through the eyes of the laborers rather than the company owners and management? This research found that Campbell workers often lived in segregated or lower quality housing close to the factory, working conditions were difficult, many of these workers were born in Kentucky, and they had minimal opportunity for upward mobility. Moreover, Campbell's black employees were prevented from unionization in the 1920s, putting their livelihood at the company largely in the hands of the company's management from the early 1900s to 1950, when unionization occurred. To combat difficult working conditions and institutionalized segregation, Louisville's black community created businesses, community services, healthcare, and educational resources. A digital map grounds the written theses to spatially show the destroyed Louisville landscape where some of those pieceworkers lived.Item ‘Smoking’: use of cigarettes, cigars and blunts among Southeast Asian American youth and young adults(Oxford University Press, 2009-12-03) Lee, J. P.; Battle, R. S.; Lipton, R.; Soller, B.Item Tobacco Smoking Among Incarcerated Individuals: A Review of the Nature of the Problem and What is Being Done in Response(Routledge, 2009) Donahue, JohnSmoking is a major health problem, however the issue is even more pronounced among those incarcerated in prisons, where smoking rates are often three times that of the general population. While effective treatments have been demonstrated in the tobacco literature, research examining treatment within prisons is limited in scope. This article reviews the existing literature evaluating the extent of this problem, its demonstrated effects, and the responses by health care and correctional authorities. Overall, this problem is far reaching, and while there is trend toward curbing smoking within institutions, a great need for empirically-grounded treatments and prevention programs remains.