Smoke Signals: The Native Takeback of North America's Tobacco Industry

by Jim Poling Sr.

A compelling look at tobacco's uses and abuses from its Native origins to today's controversies.

When Europeans discovered tobacco among Amerindians in the New World, it became a long-sought panacea of panaceas, the critical ingredient in enemas, ointments, syrups, and powders employed to treat everything from syphilis to cancer. Almost five centuries passed before medical researchers concluded that tobacco is unhealthy and can cause...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1459706404
• ISBN13: 9781459706408
• Release Date: December 2012
• Publisher: Dundurn Press
• Length: 256 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.3"