Ashes to Ashes: The History of Smoking and Health

by Lois Reynolds, E.M. Tansey, Stephen Lock

Future historians will wonder why, despite the risks, society persisted in its warm relationship with the cigarette; by the end of the century global consumption was still rising. The 1995 symposium at the Wellcome Institute for the History of Medicine not only examined tobacco's connection with health, but the varied attitudes towards smoking, which have included regarding it as 'manly', relaxing, fashionable - and decadent. A particular feature...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 9042003863
• ISBN13: 9789042003866
• Release Date: January 1984
• Publisher: Brill/Rodopi
• Length: 244 Pages
• Weight: 0.75 lbs.