Product DescriptionNative Americans believe that Tobacco is one of the most sacred gifts of the Great Spirit to his People, along with corn, beans and squash. I also believe that tobacco is a great gift of the great spirit of the natural world, and I want people who enjoy tobacco to be able to liberate [...]
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Product DescriptionOriginal Portuguese Edition of the already classic book about smoking pipes by José Manuel Lopes. The fly leaf calls this book — Um Livro de culto, para um objecto de culto — A cult book about a cult object. In almost 1,800 entries, Cachimbos offers the reader a compendium of the pipe makers, artisans, [...]
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Product Description “The story of the cigarette” (1916). Smoking, until recently, was the most popular social activity in the USA. Almost every adult, and many children, smoked incessantly. Only in recent decades did we learn the downsides of smoking. In 1916, the concern was more about how many can be made and sold. This antiquarian [...]
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Update Jan 2013: Well guys – the offer below is gone. There was quite some interest, but most just wanted to rip off as many infos as possible to start their own sites, others tried to bargain despite of my more than friendly price – *lol*. So this website is going nowhere – actually it [...]
Product Description“This book is a comprehensive ethnographic survey of the uses of tobacco in nearly three hundred Indian societies in South America. . . . This meticulously written book . . . is an awesome piece of scholarship which should be of interest not only to Wilbert’s fellow anthropologists but also to scholars in medicine, [...]
Product DescriptionTo this day, the perception persists that China was a civilization defeated by imperialist Britain’s most desirable trade commodity, opium — a drug that turned the Chinese into cadaverous addicts in the iron grip of dependence. Britain, in an effort to reverse the damage caused by opium addiction, launched its own version of the [...]
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