Cigarette Wars: The Triumph of "The Little White Slaver"
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| Rating | : | 4.89 (600 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0195118510 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 224 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2016-09-19 |
| Language | : | English |
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It's somewhat surprising, then, that very little attention has been given to the fact that America has traveled down this road before.Until now, that is. Importantly, Tate also illustrates how supporters of the early anti-cigarette movement articulated virtually every issue that is still being debated about smoking today; theirs was not a failure of determination, she argues in these pages, but of timing.A compelling narrative about several clashing American traditions--old vs. young, rural vs. urban, and the late nineteenth vs. In presenting the history of America's first conflicts with Big Tobacco, Tate draws on a wide range of newspapers, magazines, trade publications, rare pamphlets, and many other manuscripts culled from archives across the country. early twentieth centuries--this work will appeal to all who are interested in America's love-hate relationship with what Henry Ford once called "the little white slaver.". As Cassandra Tate reports in this fascinating work of historical scholarship, between 1890 and 1930, fifteen states enacted laws to ban the sale, manufacture, possession, and/or use of cigarettes--and no fewer than twenty-two other states considered such legislation. Progressive reformers and religious fundamentalists came together to curb smoking, but their efforts collapsed during World War I, when millions of soldiers took up the habit and cigarettes began to b
In sending troops to Europe, Congress prohibited alcohol and prostitution near army bases but allowed the ``lesser evil'' of cigarette smoking. According to journalist and historian Tate, in her first book, when James B. Billions of cigarettes were thus shipped overseas as army rations. The cultural impact of this policy was immense, according to Tate, serving to ``transform what was once a manifestation of moral weakness into a jaunty emblem of freedo m, democracy, and modernity.'' Throughout the postwar period and beyond, cigarettes became identified with Hollywood glamour and the loosening of traditional values, especially among women. Many industrial leaders, notably Henry Ford, Thomas Edison, and John Harvey Kellogg, refused to hire smokers b ecause ``they simply c
Cassandra Tate worked as a journalist for twenty years before earning a Ph.D. in history at the University of Washington in 1995. She currently works in the field of interactive media in Seattle.
"Good Research and Well Written to the Topic" according to scientist99. This book is about the creation of a cigarette market within the United States by the Duke family and others of the southern Tobacco industry. It is an excellent educational tool and should be found in middle school and high school libraries within the United States. It is educational from several points of view. It demonstrates how perverse the Tobacco industry was and still is within the Uni. The Little White Slaver. This book I picked to read as part of a Capp political class. The book starts off with a few personal tales from the author that I thoroughly enjoyed. The rest of the book takes a chapter by chapter approach to different topics around the production, distribution and use cigarettes in America from different groups such as troops in World War I to how the anti-smoking lobbyist failed to capture. alex1J said Review of Cigarette Wars. I found this book to be quite useful and helpful while I was conducting research for a paper on the tobacco industry. It was insightful, and helped me further my understanding of the topic. However, the author does have a bias point of view, and anyone using this book for research should definetely counter it with content from the other side.