ISBN:
9781501765759
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xvii, 302 pages)
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Illustrations (black and white, and colour).
Series Statement:
NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Series Statement:
Cornell scholarship online
DDC:
394.14
Keywords:
Smoking History
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Soviets (People) Tobacco use
;
History
;
Cigarettes History
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Tobacco History
;
Tobacco industry History
;
Tobacco use History
;
Food and Drink
;
USSR, Soviet Union
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Russia
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Cultural studies: customs & traditions
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Public health & preventive medicine
;
History of medicine
Abstract:
Enriched by colour reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and anti-smoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive study of the Soviet tobacco habit. Tricia Starks examines how the Soviets maintained the first mass smoking society in the world while simultaneously fighting it. The book is at once a study of Soviet tobacco deeply enmeshed in its social, political, and cultural context and an exploration of the global experience of the tobacco epidemic. Starks examines the Soviet antipathy to tobacco yet capitulation to market; the development of innovative cessation techniques and clinics and the late entry into global anti-tobacco work; the seeming lack of cultural stimuli alongside massive use; and the expansion of smoking without the conventional prompts of capitalist markets.
Note:
Also issued in print: 2022
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Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.7591/cornell/9781501765483.001.0001
URL:
https://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501765483.001.0001
URL:
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