Includes bibliographical references (pages 257-276) and index
Contents:
Culture: the cigar and the pipe in Victorian Britain. Good companions: bourgeois man and the divine Lady Nicotine. Vanity Fair: a panoply of Victorian smokers. The 'evils of smoking' in the Victorian anti-tobacco movement -- Economy: the cigarette and the mass market in the early twentieth century. 'Player's please': the cigarette and the mass market. Man and His Cigarette: masculinity and the mass market. Consuming the unrespectable: smoking and femininity. Juvenile smoking and 'the feverish anxiety to become a man' -- Science: cancer and the politics of smoking since 1950. Smoking and health: the medical understanding of tobacco. The presentation of medical knowledge in the media