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The book Cigarette Wars tells the story of the anti-smoking movement in America from the Victorian Age to the Great Depression. The movement was unsuccessful in curbing smoking during World War I, but after the war the progress of the anti-smoking movement began to gain momentum. The book discusses the reasons why the movement failed to stop smoking during the war, and how supporters of the anti-smoking movement articulated many of the same issues that are still debated about smoking today.
Cigarette Wars is a meticulously researched, engagingly written history of the first anti-cigarette movement, dating from the Victorian Age to the Great Depression, when cigarettes were both legally restricted and socially stigmatized in America. At that time, 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 be associated with freedom and modernity. Cassandra Tate compellingly shows 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.
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