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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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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Product DescriptionTobacco was first cultivated and enjoyed by the indigenous inhabitants of the Americas, who used it for medicinal, religious, and social purposes long before the arrival of Columbus. But when Europeans began to colonize the American continents, it became something else entirely — a cultural touchstone of pleasure and success, and a coveted commodity [...]
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Product DescriptionFrom the long-stemmed pipe to snuff, the water pipe, hand-rolled cigarettes, and finally, manufactured cigarettes, the history of tobacco in China is the fascinating story of a commodity that became a hallmark of modern mass consumerism. Carol Benedict follows the spread of Chinese tobacco use from the sixteenth century, when it was introduced to [...]
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Product DescriptionWhy do people smoke? Taking a unique approach to this question, Jason Hughes moves beyond the usual focus on biological addiction that dominates news coverage and public health studies and invites us to reconsider how social and personal understandings of smoking crucially affect the way people experience it. Learning to Smoke examines the diverse [...]
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Product DescriptionThere is little doubt that the smoke of herbs and leaves of various kinds was inhaled in this country, and in Europe generally, long before tobacco was ever heard of on this side the Atlantic. But whatever smoking of this kind took place was medicinal and not social. Where to buy? Usually you get [...]
Product Description This book demonstrates how the history of Egypt’s tobacco habits from the water pipe to the Marlboro Light mirrors wider socio-economic developments. Shechter begins in the mid 19th century, when tobacco was produced for export to the West and shows how in the early 20th century the marketing and consumption of tobacco reinforced [...]
Product DescriptionFACSIMILE REPRINT – The earliest and most concerted effort to bring together information concerning the use of tobacco among the North American Indians, McGuire’s sought-after classic of American archaeology continues to be studied and referenced. McGuire received help on this monumental work from a veritable who’s who of archaeological legends: “Among those persons whom [...]
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