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The Smoke of the Gods: A Social History of Tobacco

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 | #2099166 in Books |  2006-09-29 | Original language:English | PDF # 1 |  9.00 x.90 x6.00l,1.12 | File type: PDF | 296 pages

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||7 of 8 people found the following review helpful.| A good overview with a limited scope|By Robert M. Bittner|I have read numerous books written on tobacco over the last 100+ years, from the fairly dry (Alfred Dunhill's "The Pipe Book") to the too-trendy-to-be-of-any-use (G. Cabrera Infante's "Holy Smoke"). Burns's "The Smoke of the Gods" is hardly dry; the book can be highly enjoyable to read, especially in the first half. If y|From Publishers Weekly|For the ancient Mayans, Burns says, smoking was prayer, but when Rodrigo de Xerez, a crewmate of Columbus, returned to Spain, the Inquisitors saw what they assumed was the devil's fire spiraling from his nose and mouth—they confiscat

Fox News 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...

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