This article explores the political, legal, and social history of the 1981 “Japanese Smokers’ Wives Study.” This large-scale cohort study, led by Takeshi Hirayama, chief epidemiologist at the National Cancer Institute in Tokyo, found that the nonsmoking wives of smokers were themselves at greater risk for developing lung cancer. The study was successfully used by American anti-tobacco activists to regulate indoor smoking during the 1980s. Taking a transnational approach, the article explores the complex, multilayered relationship between American tobacco production, Japanese epidemiology, and American tobacco restriction. It argues that smoking and anti-smoking in the United States and Japan have produced each other through flows of tobacco and epidemiological data. In the postwar era, Japanese cigarettes were increasingly filled with American-grown tobacco as part of aid packages, or sold to the Japanese Tobacco Monopoly. The subject population of the study was made, in part, by American tobacco producers. Meanwhile Americans who lived under an expanding umbrella of tobacco ordinances in the 1980s were made by Japanese tobacco consumers. The circulation of tobacco from American farms to Japanese bodies, from leaf to epidemiological data, is a window into the coproduction of science and capitalism in the second half of the twentieth century.

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烟圈：从美国烟草到日本数据

本文探讨了 1981 年“日本吸烟者妻子研究”的政治、法律和社会历史。这项由东京国立癌症研究所首席流行病学家 Takeshi Hirayama 领导的大规模队列研究发现，吸烟者的不吸烟妻子本身患肺癌的风险更大。该研究在 1980 年代被美国反烟草活动家成功用于规范室内吸烟。本文采用跨国方法，探讨了美国烟草生产、日本流行病学和美国烟草限制之间复杂的、多层次的关系。它认为，美国和日本的吸烟和反吸烟是通过烟草和流行病学数据的流动相互产生的。在战后时代，作为援助包装的一部分，日本卷烟越来越多地填充美国种植的烟草，或者出售给日本烟草专卖公司。该研究的受试者群体部分由美国烟草生产商制作。与此同时，在 1980 年代生活在不断扩大的烟草法令保护伞下的美国人是由日本烟草消费者制造的。烟草从美国农场到日本身体的流通，从烟叶到流行病学数据，是了解 20 世纪下半叶科学与资本主义共同生产的窗口。与此同时，在 1980 年代生活在不断扩大的烟草法令保护伞下的美国人是由日本烟草消费者制造的。烟草从美国农场到日本身体的流通，从烟叶到流行病学数据，是了解 20 世纪下半叶科学与资本主义共同生产的窗口。与此同时，在 1980 年代生活在不断扩大的烟草法令保护伞下的美国人是由日本烟草消费者制造的。烟草从美国农场到日本身体的流通，从烟叶到流行病学数据，是了解 20 世纪下半叶科学与资本主义共同生产的窗口。