In November 2020, I spoke with Alan Blum, MD, scholar, collector, curator, exhibitor, activist, and director of the University of Alabama Center for the Study of Tobacco and Society (CSTS). He has been creating tobacco-themed exhibitions since the 1980s—in brick-and-mortar as well as digital settings—based on a prodigious collection of tobacco-related artifacts. Before joining CSTS, as founder of Doctors Ought to Care, a national organization of concerned and outspoken physicians, Blum satirized and protested at tobacco industry–sponsored events. In addition to being an avid museumgoer, he closely follows the tobacco industry’s sponsorship of museums and exhibitions. This article contains excerpts from our interview, with Blum addressing the dynamism of tobacco marketing, the irony of CSTS exhibitions, his recollections of past exhibitions, and what he regards as the complicity of other industries and professions. Be advised that the exhibitions Blum curates and the views he expresses “may be hazardous to people’s preconceptions.”

2020年11月，我与阿拉巴马州医学博士，学者，收藏家，策展人，参展商，活动家和阿拉巴马大学烟草与社会研究中心（CSTS）主任进行了交谈。从1980年代开始，他就一直在以烟草和数字环境为基础，以烟草相关的人工制品为基础，创作以烟草为主题的展览。在加入CSTS之前，作为一个由关心和直言不讳的医生组成的全国性组织，Doctor Ought to Care的创始人，布鲁姆对烟草业赞助的事件进行了讽刺和抗议。除了热衷于博物馆参观外，他还密切关注烟草业对博物馆和展览馆的赞助。本文摘录了我们采访的节选，布鲁姆谈到了烟草营销的活力，对CSTS展览的讽刺，对过去展览的回忆，以及他认为是其他行业和专业的同谋。请注意，百隆策划的展览以及他所表达的观点“可能会危害人们的先入为主。”