The Freedom to Smoke: Tobacco Consumption and Identity Volume 18

ISBN-13: 9780773529113 / Angielski / Miękka / 2005 / 248 str.

Jarrett Rudy

Opis

In the late Victorian era, smoking was a male habit and tobacco was consumed mostly in pipes and cigars. By the mid-twentieth century, advertising and movies had not only made it acceptable for women to smoke but smoking had become a potent symbol of their emancipation. From mass cigarette production in 1888 to the first studies linking cigarettes to lung cancer in 1950,