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

by Cassandra Tate

Book Overview

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...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0195118510
• ISBN13: 9780195118513
• Release Date: February 1999
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 224 Pages
• Weight: 1.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.4" x 9.3"