A November 20th 1960 ad from the New York Mirror magazine. Courtesy of the collection of Joe B. Tye and STAT (Stop Teenage Addiction to Tobacco).

Dorothy Peters’ husband, Sidney, a filter maker, died of asbestosis and lung cancer at age 51. He weighed 74 pounds at his death.

Sign outside the Hollingsworth & Vose factory in West Groton, Massachusetts.

ke Nutting, 55, a former worker in the filter plant, now relies on an oxygen tank to help him breathe.

Phil Lemere’s father worked for only a few months at Specialties, yet died last year from mesothelioma.