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Author Milov, Sarah, 1984- author.

Title The cigarette : a political history / Sarah Milov.

Publication Info. Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, 2019.
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Location Call No. Status
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  338.4767 MIL    Check Shelf
 Newington, Lucy Robbins Welles Library - Adult Department  338.4767 MILOV    Check Shelf
 South Windsor Public Library - Non Fiction  338.4767 MILOV    Check Shelf
 West Hartford, Noah Webster Library - Non Fiction  338.4767 MILOV    Check Shelf
Description 394 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm
Summary The Cigarette: A Political History offers a fresh interpretation of tobacco's role in the twentieth century. It argues that tobacco played a vital and emblematic role in the history of twentieth century political economy. Far from being unregulated, tobacco was the most controlled and supported commodity produced in the United States during the twentieth century. The federal tobacco program was remarkably long lived, lasting nearly seven decades and ending only in 2004. By the 1960s, criticisms of the Tobacco industry and its state support were ubiquitous. Under the banner of "non-smokers' rights," by the mid-1970s activists began to rack up an impressive string of victories in curtailing public smoking at the local and state levels. By the final decades of the twentieth century, debates over tobacco were waged primarily on the terrain of its social cost. By placing tobacco at the center of American political economy, The Cigarette: A Political History joins the politics of the body to the American body politic.-- Provided by publisher.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages [297]-375) and index.
Contents Tobacco in industrializing America -- Tobacco's New Deal -- Cultivating the grower -- The challenge of the public interest -- Inventing the non-smoker -- From rights to cost -- Shredding a net to build a web -- Conclusion: "Weeds are hard to kill": the future of tobacco politics.
Subject Cigarettes -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Tobacco industry -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Tobacco -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Smoking -- Law and legislation -- United States -- History -- 20th century.
Cigarettes. (OCoLC)fst00861391
Smoking -- Law and legislation. (OCoLC)fst01121698
Tobacco. (OCoLC)fst01432109
Tobacco industry. (OCoLC)fst01151931
United States. (OCoLC)fst01204155
Chronological Term 1900-1999
Genre/Form History. (OCoLC)fst01411628
ISBN 9780674241213 (hardcover)
0674241215 (hardcover)
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