"Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tob…
"Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tob…
"Current public health literature suggests that the mentally ill may represent as much as half of the smokers in America. In Smoking Privileges, Laura Hirshbein highlights the complex problem of mentally ill smokers, placing it in the context of changes in psychiatry, in the tob…
Prologue: Pushers in the city of my youth -- Introduction -- The crooked man: influence, exploitation, and menthol's expanding web -- Selling the menthol sensation -- For people susceptible to cancer anxiety -- Building a black franchise -- Urban hustles and suburban dreams -- U…
"In the 1950s, the causal link between smoking and lung cancer surfaced in medical journals and mainstream media. Yet the best years for the Canadian cigarette industry were still to come, as per capita cigarette consumption rose steadily in the 1960s and 1970s. In Cigarette Nat…
Introduction : papirosy and dependence -- Cultivated : exotic blends and imperial designs -- Produced : tobacco queens and working girls -- Tasted : distinctive smoking and social inclusion -- Condemned : social danger and neurasthenic decline -- Contested : health dispute and p…
"Using unusual sources and approaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, this monograph provides a view of the early transfer by the Russian market to smoking and presents the addictive, nicotine-soaked Russian cigarette--the papirosa--and the sens…
"From 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 Chi…
