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Overview
Did you know: Nearly 15 billion cigarettes are sold worldwide daily—about 10 million cigarettes every minute. . . . A single tablespoon of tobacco seeds can sow six acres of land. . . . Lucky Strike was originally the name of a chewing tobacco sold during the Gold Rush?
Gone are the days of TV tobacco ads ("Winston Tastes Good Like a Cigarette Should!"). Airplane and movie theater smoking sections and smoking cars on railroad trains are things of the halcyon past. But smoking carries on! The Joys of Smoking Cigarettes enables confirmed and unbowed tobacco enthusiasts to revel in their satisfaction, with classic advertisements, smoking celeb photographs, drawings, and fascinating observations on:
- The psychotherapeutic effect of cigarette as timepiece ("One more smoke, and then I'll pay the utilities bill.")
- The new brands and the old favorites
- Being a smoker in a nonsmoking world
- The classic smoker profile: the Marlboro Man, the American Spirit American, Joe Camel, the Gauloises Gal
And Much More!
They may bar you from restaurants. They may force you out into the cold, cold streets. But they will never rob you of . . . the joys of smoking cigarettes!
Product Details
ISBN-13: | 9780061252273 |
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Publisher: | HarperCollins |
Publication date: | 09/18/2007 |
Edition description: | Revised ed. |
Pages: | 192 |
Product dimensions: | 4.62(w) x 9.00(h) x 0.53(d) |
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The Joys of Smoking Cigarettes
Chapter One
John Rolfe
In 1612, Captain John Rolfe produced the first successful tobacco crop in Virginia. John Rolfe was a farmer in the Jamestown settlement whose crops of tobacco became the economic basis for the colony. Known as an "ardent smoker," Rolfe was probably instrumental in importing tobacco seed from Trinidad between 1610 and 1611. He crossed the imported breed with the indigenous tobacco to produce a plant well adapted to the local soil and reportedly of pleasant taste. When the English cargo vessel Elizabeth sailed from Virginia on June 28, 1613, it presumably carried Rolfe's first tobacco crop for export. In April of the following year, John Rolfe married a sweet young Indian named Pocahontas in a Jamestown church. He died early in 1622. Within those ten short years, tobacco became the staple of the colonies, even though the motherland, England, was anxious to have the new provinces produce other commodities, such as flax, cotton, and indigo.
The revenues and profits from the "devil weed," as tobacco had come to be called, changed their minds, though. In 1622, Virginia exported sixty thousand pounds of tobacco from the colonies back to England. Nearly a hundred years later, the production level of export had risen to a whopping 50 million pounds and was still growing.
Rolfe may be considered the father of modern tobacco, through his aggressive sale and distribution of tobacco, but he was also anointed the economic savior of the colonies.
The Joys of Smoking Cigarettes. Copyright © by James Fitzgerald. Reprinted by permission of HarperCollins Publishers,Inc. All rights reserved. Available now wherever books are sold.Table of Contents
Introduction 1
John Rolfe 9
BIC 10
Three on a Match 12
Smokers Around the World 14
The Conversation 16
A Special Cigarette Day 23
Moderate Smoker 28
Cat Tyc Profile 30
Billboards 34
Buying Cigarettes 37
American Spirit Profile 42
Camel Questions Game 44
Catherine Zeta-Jones 46
Christmas 48
Infamous Cigarette Smokers 50
Cigarette Pack 56
Elders 58
Benson & Hedges Profile 60
End of the Ritual 62
Peter Pavia Profile 64
Fieldstripping 67
Forbidden Places 71
The Indian Spirit 74
Joe Camel 77
The Little Man in the Red-and-Black Uniform 79
Drag 81
Camel Profile 83
Looking for Love 85
My Cigarette 88
Other Uses 90
Party Treat 94
Pets 95
LightingCigarettes 98
Marlboro Profile 102
Posing 104
Raymond Loewy 108
Rolling Your Own 109
Sean Penn 115
A Day Without 116
Carlton Profile 120
Slogans 122
Smoke Rings 124
Smokin' Behind Bars 127
Smokin' in Front of Bars 129
Smoking in Arabia 132
Salem Profile 134
A Ten-Day Smoking Program 136
Smokingdate.com 147
Television 148
Cigarettes and the Armed Forces 150
Winston Profile 155
Little Lady Lighting Her Eve 157
Those Darn Candy Cigarettes 159
One-Hand Johnny 161
An Old Indian Tradition 163
Weight Loss 165
Blowing Smoke 166
Tobacco as a Crop 167
People Who Never Smoked Cigarettes 169
Epilogue 170
An Abbreviated Smoking and Cigarette Glossary 175
Acknowledgments 181