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

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