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The Social History of Smoking

by George L. Apperson

This work tells the history of smoking in England from the social point of view. Thus it does not deal with the history of tobacco growing or tobacco related manufacture, but is rather the story of how smoking has fitted in with the fashions and customs throughout the ages, and the changes in the attitude of society towards smoking.

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English

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English

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1914

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George L. Apperson

United States

George Latimer Apperson was a school inspector and man of letters. He was editor of The Antiquary from 1899–1915, and a major contributor to the Oxford English Dictionary, both submitting large...

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