Tobacco in History and Culture An Encyclopedia

Jordan Goodman9780684314051, 0-684-31405-3, 0-684-31406-1

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.
Tobacco in History and Culture is the first set in a new reference line, the Scribner Turning Points Library. Future titles will explore other discoveries and historical events that have changed the direction of human societies worldwide, whether through sudden upheavals or gradual evolution. (20050801)

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Table of contents :
Publisher; ISBN……Page 5
Contents……Page 6
Preface……Page 9
Timeline……Page 12
Addiction……Page 16
Additives……Page 21
Advertising……Page 26
Advertising Restrictions……Page 34
Africa……Page 38
Age……Page 46
Air Travel……Page 48
Alcohol, Tobacco, and Other Drugs……Page 50
American Tobacco Company……Page 57
Antismoking Movement Before 1950……Page 60
Antismoking Movement From 1950……Page 66
Antismoking Movement in France……Page 74
Appetite……Page 76
Archaeology……Page 81
Architecture……Page 86
Arents Collection……Page 88
Bad Habits in America……Page 92
Black Patch War……Page 95
Body……Page 96
Botany (History)……Page 100
Brazil……Page 103
British American Tobacco……Page 107
British Empire……Page 111
Calumets……Page 117
Camel……Page 119
Caribbean……Page 121
Chemistry of Tobacco and Tobacco Smoke……Page 125
Chesapeake Region……Page 131
Chewing Tobacco……Page 139
China……Page 143
Christianity……Page 149
Cigarettes……Page 158
Cigars……Page 164
Class……Page 167
Connoisseurship……Page 169
Consumption (Demographics)……Page 181
Cuba……Page 200
Developing Countries……Page 206
Disease and Mortality……Page 212
Doctors……Page 227
Documents……Page 229
Dutch Empire……Page 232
English Renaissance Literature……Page 236
Ethnicity……Page 239
Film……Page 243
Fire Safety……Page 250
French Empire……Page 252
Genetic Modification……Page 257
Gitanes/Gauloises……Page 260
Globalization……Page 263
Hallucinogens……Page 270
Industrialization and Technology……Page 272
Insurance……Page 278
Intellectuals……Page 281
Iranian Tobacco Protest Movement……Page 283
Islam……Page 285
Japan……Page 288
Judaism……Page 292
Kentucky……Page 295
Kretek……Page 297
L……Page 300
“Light” and Filtered Cigarettes……Page 307
Literature……Page 311
Litigation……Page 316
Lobbying……Page 323
Lucky Strike……Page 327
Lung Cancer……Page 329
Marketing……Page 336
Marlboro……Page 346
Mayas……Page 348
Medical Evidence (Cause and Effect)……Page 352
Menthol Cigarettes……Page 357
Mexico……Page 359
Middle East……Page 364
Missionaries……Page 369
Music, Classical……Page 373
Music, Popular……Page 378
Color Insert……Page 383