Description
Book SynopsisA history of smoking in British popular culture from the early-19th to the end of the 20th century. It explores the culture of the pipe and cigar in the 19th century, the cigarette's role in the mass market economy of the early 1900s, and the politics of smoking and health since the 1950s.
Table of ContentsSection A: Culture- the pipe and the cigar in Victorian Britain
1. Good companions: bourgeois man and the divine Lady Nicotine
2. Vanity Fair: a panoply of Victorian smokers
3. The evils of smoking in the Victorian anti-tabacco movement
Section B: Economy: the cigarette and the mass market in the early twentieth century
4. 'Players Please': the cigrarette and the mass market
5. Man and his Cigarette: masculinity and the mass market
6. Consuming the unrespectable: smoking and femininity
7. Juvenile smoking and 'the feverish anxiety to become a man'
Section C: Science - cancer and the politics of smoking since 1950
8. Smoking and health: the medical understanding of tabacco
9. The presentation of medical knowledge in the media
10. 'It never did me any harm': science in culture
Conclusion, or 'why lighting up is cool again'.
