Smoke, Society and the State

Tobacco Products, Public Life and the Making of the Modern World (The History of Tobacco Volume 2): Tobacco Products, Public Life and the Making of the Modern World

von Stephen Buss

620 Seiten, Hardcover

Kurzbeschreibung des Verlags

How did a small hand-rolled tobacco product become one of the most successful manufactured consumer products in modern history?The Age of the Cigarette follows the extraordinary industrial, commercial and cultural transformation that placed the cigarette at the centre of twentieth-century life.From Turkish and Egyptian tobacco, the Crimean War and the Bonsack machine to multinational tobacco companies and high-speed manufacturing, this volume examines the engineering of the modern cigarette: leaf sourcing and blending, curing, paper, filters, ventilation, reconstituted tobacco, packaging and mass-production technology.It then follows the cigarette beyond the factory into advertising, Hollywood, radio, television, sport, military life and the creation of global brands. Smoking became associated with glamour, independence, masculinity, femininity, rebellion and modernity before scientific evidence began to transform its social position.The later chapters trace epidemiology, lung cancer research, nicotine dependence, industry science, filters and low-tar products, litigation, whistle-blowers, health warnings, taxation, advertising restrictions and international tobacco control.Richly illustrated and extensively referenced, Volume II explains both how the cigarette conquered the modern consumer market and how science, law and regulation progressively dismantled the legitimacy it had once enjoyed.

• Themen: Geschichte und Archäologie Geschichte Besondere Ereignisse und Themen Sozial- und Kulturgeschichte
• ISBN: 9781918545012
• Sprache: Englisch
• Erscheinungsdatum: 14.09.2026
• Größe: 235 x 157 mm
• Verlag: RageQuitRemedy Ltd Publishing Press