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Figure. An Adverstisement of The Keeley Institute from the magazine Radio-Craft of July 1930 

The Keeley Institute was founded in 1879 by Dr. Leslie Keeley in Dwight, Illinois, and it eventually expanded to thirty-three branches across USA. Keeley's sanitariums catered to middle- and upper-class men and women and claimed to have successfully alleviated the craving for drugs and alcohol. After Keeley died in 1900, the patient numbers lowered, 100,000 additional people took the cure between 1900 and 1939. Oughton and Judd took over the company following Keeley's death, and continued to operate the institute. The Keeley Institute continued to operate until it definitively shut down in 1965.

Following the scientific revelations of the mid-1900s, tobacco became condemned as a health hazard, and eventually became encompassed as a cause for cancer, as well as other respiratory and circulatory diseases.

References
1. Online Nevada Encyclopedia

2. Wikepedia

3. Blair History: An old newspaper about the Keeley Institute with picture