Smoking under the Tsars
Subtitle: A History of Tobacco in Imperial Russia
Publisher: Cornell University Press
Published: 2018
Language: eng
Number of pages: 336
ISBN-13: 9781501722059
Subjects: Tobacco, history; Russia (federation), history
Description: "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 sensory, medical, social, cultural, and gendered consequences of this unique style of tobacco use"--