Brochure, "The Case Against the Little White Slaver, Volumes 1, 2, 3 and 4," 1916

In 1914 Henry Ford published the first of four volumes entitled, "The Case Against the Little White Slaver," his treatise for youth on the evils of cigarettes, aka "little white slavers". Ford had been greatly influenced to take up this anti-smoking crusade by his close friend and mentor, Thomas Edison, who famously stated that he would "employ no person who smokes."