Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "the Little White Slaver"

Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "the Little White Slaver"
ISBN-10
0195118510
ISBN-13
9780195118513
Category
Medical
Pages
221
Language
English
Published
1999
Publisher
Oxford University Press on Demand
Author
Cassandra Tate

Description

Cigarette Wars is a meticulously researched, engagingly written history of the first anti-cigarette movement, dating from the Victorian Age to the Great Depression, when cigarettes were both legally restricted and socially stigmatized in America. At that time, progressive reformers and religious fundamentalists came together to curb smoking, but their efforts collapsed during World War I, when millions of soldiers took up the habit and cigarettes began to be associated with freedom and modernity. Cassandra Tate compellingly shows how supporters of the early anti-cigarette movement articulated virtually every issue that is still being debated about smoking today; theirs was not a failure of determination, she argues in these pages, but of timing.

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