TY  - GEN
T1  - The smoke of the gods : a social history of tobacco
A1  - Burns, Eric
LA  - English
PP  - Philadelphia
PB  - Temple University Press
YR  - 2007
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/jstor_eba_ocn166346281
AB  - Fox New Watch host Eric Burns, who chronicled the social history of alcohol in The Spirits of America turns to tobacco in The Smoke of the Gods. Ranging from ancient times to the present day, The Smoke of the Gods is a lively history of tobacco, especially in the United States. Although tobacco use is controversial in the U.S. today, Burns reminds us that this was not always the case. For centuries tobacco was generally thought to have medicinal and even spiritual value. Most of the signers of the Declaration of Independence were tobacco users or growers, or both. According to Burns, tobacco changed the very course of U.S. history, because its discovery caused the British to support Jamestown, its struggling New World colony. An entertaining and informative look at a subject that makes daily news headlines, The Smoke of the Gods is a history that is, well, quite addictive.
OP  - 270
CN  - HV5730 .B87 2007eb
SN  - 9781592134823
SN  - 1592134823
SN  - 1281093726
SN  - 9781281093721
SN  - 9781592134809
SN  - 1592134807
SN  - 9781592134816
KW  - Tobacco use : History.
KW  - Tobacco : Social aspects.
KW  - Tobacco : United States : History.
KW  - Smoking : History.
KW  - Antismoking movement : History.
KW  - Antismoking movement : United States : History.
KW  - Tabagisme : Histoire.
KW  - Tabac : Aspect social.
KW  - Tabac : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - Lutte antitabac : Histoire.
KW  - Lutte antitabac : États-Unis : Histoire.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Customs & Traditions.
KW  - HISTORY : General.
KW  - Antismoking movement
KW  - Smoking
KW  - Tobacco
KW  - Tobacco : Social aspects
KW  - Tobacco use
KW  - United States
KW  - History
ER  -