Tobacco: Tradition, Addiction, and Health (3 Classic Books)
Classic Essays on Tobacco Reform, Addiction, Public Health, and Social CustomsBy William Augustine Brennan, Edward Vincent Heward, A. McAllister, Moses Stuart
Length12h 7m
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Tobacco: Tradition, Addiction, and Health (3 Classic Books) gathers three historically resonant studies of a commodity whose meanings extend far beyond consumption. Moving between cultural custom, moral reflection, medical concern, and social observation, the volume charts tobacco's transformation from inherited practice to object of scrutiny. Its varied prose—at once descriptive, argumentative, and cautionary—reveals how debates over habit, pleasure, bodily risk, and public conduct have long accompanied the leaf's global circulation. The juxtaposition of classic texts makes the collection itself a compelling record of changing attitudes toward health and addiction. The contributing voices—William Augustine Brennan, Edward Vincent Heward, A. McAllister, and Moses Stuart—bring distinct intellectual and historical sensibilities to tobacco's contested place in everyday life. Together, their writings belong to broader traditions of social commentary, temperance-minded reform, medical and hygienic discourse, and moral inquiry. Rather than offering a single settled verdict, the collection preserves the tensions through which tobacco has been understood: as ritual, recreation, vice, commerce, and potential danger. These perspectives illuminate the cultural assumptions behind later public-health debates. This volume will reward readers of cultural history, health humanities, addiction studies, and social reform literature. It offers a rare opportunity to compare multiple styles of inquiry within one concise anthology, tracing the dialogue between custom and critique. Educational as well as provocative, it invites readers to assess how historical arguments continue to shape conversations about autonomy, habit, and collective well-being.
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GenreHistory, Literary Classics
Length12 hrs 7 mins
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FormateBook with Audio
Publish dateMar 4, 2025
LanguageEnglish
Table of contents
1St Nicotine of the Peace Pipe
2ST NICOTINE
3SYMPOSIUM CHAPTER II
4CHAPTER IV TOBACCO IN RELATION TO HEALTH AND CHARACTER
5CHAPTER V THE USE AND ABUSE OF TOBACCO
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6CHAPTER VII. A GLIMPSE OF SOCIAL LIFE IN JAPAN.
7CHAPTER VIII. STRAY LEAVES FROM THE INDIAN WEED.
8CHAPTER IX. SOCIAL GOSSIP ABOUT THE WEED.
9CHAPTER X. THE TOBACCO INDUSTRY AND SMOKING PIPES.
10A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
11A Dissertation on the Medical Properties and Injurious Effects of the Habitual Use of Tobacco
12INTRODUCTION.
13APPENDIX,
14Tobacco Leaves: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers
15Tobacco Leaves: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers
16INTRODUCTION
17CHAPTER V
18CHAPTER XII
19CHAPTER XVII
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