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

Erscheinungsjahr 2001
ISBN: 978-0-19-511851-3
Verlag: OXFORD UNIV PR

Buch, Englisch, 224 Seiten, Format (B × H): 163 mm x 236 mm, Gewicht: 531 g

This 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. Progressive reformers and religious fundamentalists came together to curb smoking, but their efforts collapsed during the First World War, 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.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Tate, Cassandra

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziale Gruppen/Soziale Themen Invalidität, Krankheit und Abhängigkeit: Soziale Aspekte

Über Autor(innen)

Cassandra Tate worked as a journalist for twenty years before earning a Ph.D. in history at the University of Washington in 1995. She won national acclaim for her reportage on environmental problems in Kellogg, Idaho.