Project Gutenberg 2006-04-01 Public domain in the USA. 193 Apperson, George Latimer 1857 1937 The Social History of Smoking Reading ease score: 62.4 (8th & 9th grade). Neither easy nor difficult to read. Produced by David Newman, Jeannie Howse and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at http://www.pgdp.net "The Social History of Smoking" by George Latimer Apperson is a historical account written in the early 20th century. The book explores the evolution of smoking in England, focusing on its social aspects and the changing attitudes of society toward the practice. Apperson endeavors to provide a comprehensive view on how smoking, particularly tobacco use, reflected and influenced social customs and fashions through the ages. The opening of the text details the historical context of smoking in England, tracing its roots back to before the introduction of tobacco after its arrival from the Americas. Apperson discusses early claims regarding who first smoked tobacco in England and mentions notable figures like Sir Walter Raleigh, who played a significant role in popularizing the practice. He emphasizes that smoking was initially viewed more as a pleasurable social activity rather than a medicinal one, paving the way for further discussion on how it expanded across various social classes and eventually became both fashionable and pervasive in society. The introduction sets the stage for a detailed examination of smoking's history, reflecting both its cultural significance and the many contradictions that arose alongside its adoption. (This is an automatically generated summary.) en Smoking GT Text Browsing: Culture/Civilization/Society Browsing: Other 487081 480846 2024-10-08T06:17:37.814505 2023-09-08T08:16:51.350549 text/html text/html 473438 2006-04-01T09:27:04 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 173972 2006-04-01T09:28:54 text/html; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 271685 2024-10-08T06:17:50.218420 application/epub+zip 277080 2024-10-08T06:17:42.418456 application/epub+zip 250257 2024-10-08T06:17:40.503490 application/epub+zip 504089 2024-10-08T06:17:55.295437 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 482958 2024-10-08T06:17:48.598440 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 440472 2022-09-08T14:39:07.557912 application/x-mobipocket-ebook 405824 2024-10-08T06:17:36.381505 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 405830 2006-04-01T09:27:00 text/plain; charset=utf-8 162454 2006-04-01T09:28:54 text/plain; charset=utf-8 application/zip 405578 2006-04-01T09:28:12 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 162137 2006-04-01T09:28:54 text/plain; charset=iso-8859-1 application/zip 405583 2006-04-01T09:28:12 text/plain; charset=us-ascii 162022 2006-04-01T09:28:54 text/plain; charset=us-ascii application/zip 22243 2024-10-08T06:17:55.436385 application/rdf+xml 16056 2024-10-08T06:17:41.102475 image/jpeg 3801 2024-10-08T06:17:40.803468 image/jpeg 256690 2024-10-08T06:17:37.853515 application/octet-stream application/zip Archives containing the RDF files for *all* our books can be downloaded at https://www.gutenberg.org/wiki/Gutenberg:Feeds#The_Complete_Project_Gutenberg_Catalog