Tobacco in history and culture
Subtitle: an encyclopedia
By: Jordan Goodman, editor in chief
Contributors: Goodman, Jordan
Series: Scribner turning points library
Publisher: Thomson Gale
Published: 2005
Place of publication: Detroit
Language: eng
Number of pages: 738
Subjects: Tobacco -- History -- Dictionaries; Tobacco -- Social aspects -- Dictionaries; Smoking -- History -- Dictionaries
Genres: Dictionaries
Description: Tobacco in History and Culture explores how tobacco became one of the most important commodities in the history of world trade and the source of one of the biggest public health concerns in modern history. Originally used by Native Americans for medicinal, religious and social purposes, tobacco quickly became the biggest export from the American colonies. By the mid-1990s, more than 14 billion pounds of tobacco leaf were grown worldwide each year, with international treaties governing its advertising and distribution. It has affected agriculture, religion, social customs, business and trade, government policy and medicine in many countries. The unique and innovative reference work presents entries on all aspects of tobacco and from a global perspective, providing support for assignments at many levels and in a variety of fields, including history, economics, government and health
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Timeline; title: Addiction; title: Additives; title: Advertising; title: Advertising restrictions; title: Africa; title: Age; title: Air travel; title: Alcochol, tobacco, and other drugs; title: American Tobacco Company; title: Antismoking movement before 1950; title: Antismoking movement in France; title: Antismoking movement post 1950; title: Appetite; title: Archaeology; title: Architecture; title: Arents collection; title: Bad habits in America; title: Black Patch War; title: Body; title: Botany (history); title: Brazil; title: British American tobacco; title: Calumets; title: Camel; title: Cancer; title: Caribbean; title: Chemistry of tobacco and tobacco smoke; title: Chesapeake region; title: Chewing tobacco; title: China; title: Christianity; title: Cigarettes; title: Cigars; title: Class; title: Connoisseurship; title: Consumption (demographics); title: Cuba; title: Developing countries; title: Disease and morality; title: Dutch Empire; title: Ethnicity; title: Film; title: Fire safety; title: French Empire; title: Genetic modification; title: Gitanes/Gauloises; title: Globalization; title: Gods; title: Hallucinogens; title: Industrialization and technology; title: Insurance; title: Intellectuals; title: Iranian tobacco protest movement; title: Islam; title: Japan; title: Judaism; title: Kentucky; title: Kretek; title: Labor; title: "Light" and filtered cigarettes; title: Literature; title: Litigation; title: Lobbying; title: Lucky strike; title: Marketing; title: Marlboro; title: Medical evidence (cause and effect); title: Menthol cigarettes; title: Mexico; title: Middle East; title: Missionaries; title: Music, classical; title: Music, popular; title: V. 2: Introduction; title: Timeline; title: Native Americans; title: Nazi Germany; title: New deal; title: Nicotine; title: Oceania; title: Opium; title: Origin and diffusion; title: Ostracism; title: Philip Morris; title: Philippines; title: Pipes; title: Plantations; title: Politics; title: Portuguese Empire; title: Processing; title: Product design; title: Prohibitions; title: Psychology and smoking behavior; title: Public relations; title: Quitting; title: Quitting medications; title: Regulation of tobacco products in the United States; title: Retailing; title: "Safe" cigarette; title: Sailors; title: Secondhand smoke; title: Sexual politics; title: Shamanism; title: Sharecroppers; title: Slavery and slave trade; title: Smoking clubs and rooms; title: Smoking restrictions; title: Smuggling and contraband; title: Snuff; title: Social and cultural uses; title: Soldiers; title: South and Central America; title: South Asia; title: South East Asia; title: Spain and its empire; title: Sponsorship; title: Sports; title: State monopolies; title: Taxation; title: Therapeutic uses; title: Tobacco as an ornamental plant; title: Tobacco control in Australia; title: Tobacco control in the United Kingdom; title: Tobacco industry science; title: Tobacco mosaic virus; title: Toxins; title: Trade; title: United States agriculture; title: Virginia Slims; title: Visual arts; title: Warning labels; title: Youth marketing; title: Youth tobacco use; title: Zimbabwe