Pearl of the Pee Dee, 1885–1918
Few cultural phenomena in American history have equaled the spectacular rise of cigarette smoking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.¹ As a way of consuming tobacco, cigarettes were latecomers. Before the 1870s, few Americans outside major cities had seen a cigarette, let alone smo...
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| Published in | Long Green p. 46 |
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| Main Authors | , |
| Format | Book Chapter |
| Language | English |
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University of Georgia Press
01.01.2013
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| Summary: | Few cultural phenomena in American history have equaled the spectacular rise of cigarette smoking in the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries.¹ As a way of consuming tobacco, cigarettes were latecomers. Before the 1870s, few Americans outside major cities had seen a cigarette, let alone smoked one. Americans puffed pipes and cigars, dipped snuff, and chewed flavored tobacco, but cigarettes were uncommon even in the tobacco country. As recently as 1868, a Virginian could mark someone a stranger because “he was smoking a cigarette, which is unheard of in these parts.”² Within a generation, however, Americans were consuming billions of |
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| ISBN: | 0820321761 9780820321769 |