Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (1 online resource)
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Starks, Tricia, 1969- Smoking under the tsars
DDC:
394.1/4094709034
Keywords:
Russians Tobacco use
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History
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Tobacco Social aspects
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History
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Smoking History 19th century
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SOCIAL SCIENCE ; Agriculture & Food
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HISTORY ; Europe ; Russia & the Former Soviet Union
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Smoking
;
Social conditions
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Tobacco ; Social aspects
;
History
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Russia Social conditions 1801-1917
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Russia
Abstract:
"Using unusual sources and approaching tobacco from the perspective of users, producers, and objectors, this monograph provides a view of the early transfer by the Russian market to smoking and presents the addictive, nicotine-soaked Russian cigarette - the papirosa - and the sensory, medical, social, cultural, and gendered consequences of this unique style of tobacco use"--
Abstract:
Introduction : papirosy and dependence -- Cultivated : exotic blends and imperial designs -- Produced : tobacco queens and working girls -- Tasted : distinctive smoking and social inclusion -- Condemned : social danger and neurasthenic decline -- Contested : health dispute and public disbelief -- Epilogue : revolution and cessation.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
