02789cam a22003858i 4500 595881 595881 20864859 US-DLC 20200115131419.0 190212s2019 mau b 001 0 eng c 2019002275 9780674241213 (alk. paper) MH/DLC eng MH rda AU pcc n-us--- Alfaisal Main Library HD9149.C43 U663 2019 Milov, Sarah, 1984- author. The cigarette : a political history / Sarah Milov. ©2019 1111 Cambridge, Massachusetts : Harvard University Press, ©2019 394 p: text rdacontent txt unmediated rdamedia n volume rdacarrier nc Includes bibliographical references and index. Tobacco in industrializing America -- Tobacco's New Deal -- Cultivating the grower -- The challenge of the public interest -- Inventing the non-smoker -- From rights to cost -- Shredding a net to build a web -- Conclusion: "Weeds are hard to kill": the future of tobacco politics. The Cigarette: A Political History offers a fresh interpretation of tobacco's role in the twentieth century. It argues that tobacco played a vital and emblematic role in the history of twentieth century political economy. Far from being unregulated, tobacco was the most controlled and supported commodity produced in the United States during the twentieth century. The federal tobacco program was remarkably long lived, lasting nearly seven decades and ending only in 2004. By the 1960s, criticisms of the Tobacco industry and its state support were ubiquitous. Under the banner of "non-smokers' rights," by the mid-1970s activists began to rack up an impressive string of victories in curtailing public smoking at the local and state levels. By the final decades of the twentieth century, debates over tobacco were waged primarily on the terrain of its social cost. By placing tobacco at the center of American political economy, The Cigarette: A Political History joins the politics of the body to the American body politic.-- Cigarettes United States History 20th century. Tobacco industry United States History 20th century. Tobacco United States History 20th century. Smoking Law and legislation United States History 20th century. local 4 Print books. lcc BOOKS 0 0 lcc 0 0 AU AU GEN 2020-01-15 0 HD9149.C43 U663 2019 AU00000000015827 2020-01-15 00:00:00 250.00 2020-01-15 BOOKS