The untold political story of the most controversial consumer product in American history. Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man, the plant occupied the heart of the nation’s economy and expressed its enduring myths. But today smoking rates have declined and smokers are exiled from many public spaces. The story of tobacco’s fortunes ...(展开全部)

“Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov’s thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse.”—The New York Times Book Review “An impressive work of scholarship evincing years of spadework… A well-told story.”—The Wall Street Journal “A nuanced and ultimately devastating indictment of government complicity with the worst...(展开全部)

The untold political story of the most controversial consumer product in American history. Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man, the plant occupied the heart of the nation’s economy and expressed its enduring myths. But today smoking rates have declined and smokers are exiled from many public spaces. The story of tobacco’s fortunes ...(展开全部)

“Vaping gets all the attention now, but Milov’s thorough study reminds us that smoking has always intersected with the government, for better or worse.”—The New York Times Book Review “An impressive work of scholarship evincing years of spadework… A well-told story.”—The Wall Street Journal “A nuanced and ultimately devastating indictment of government complicity with the worst...(展开全部)

迪迪埃·努里松（Didier Nourrisson）现为里昂克罗德·贝纳尔大学（里昂一大）的当代史教授，他对那些会上瘾成癖的物品（如酒类、烟草和毒品）尤为关注，并以此为主题撰写了多部备受关注的著作：《可口可乐的传奇故事》（2008）、《烟草的社会发展史》（2000）、《十九世纪的饮酒客》（1990）。

迪迪埃·努里松（Didier Nourrisson）现为里昂克罗德·贝纳尔大学（里昂一大）的当代史教授，他对那些会上瘾成癖的物品（如酒类、烟草和毒品）尤为关注，并以此为主题撰写了多部备受关注的著作：《可口可乐的传奇故事》（2008）、《烟草的社会发展史》（2000）、《十九世纪的饮酒客》（1990）。

From agriculture to big business, from medicine to politics, The Cigarette Century is the definitive account of how smoking came to be so deeply implicated in our culture, science, policy, and law. No product has been so heavily promoted or has become so deeply entrenched in American consciousness. The Cigarette Century shows in striking detail how one ephemeral (and largel...(展开全部)

A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco ...(展开全部)

A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco ...(展开全部)

A favorite icon for cigarette manufacturers across China since the mid-twentieth century has been the panda, with factories from Shanghai to Sichuan using cuddly cliché to market tobacco products. The proliferation of panda-branded cigarettes coincides with profound, yet poorly appreciated, shifts in the worldwide tobacco trade. Over the last fifty years, transnational tobacco ...(展开全部)