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The Social History of Smoking

by G. L. Apperson

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First published
1914
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158
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Read by Maire Rhode, TriciaG, Anna Roberts and others · 7 h 3 min · 16 parts

  1. Preface

    3:36

  2. The First Pipes of Tobacco Smoked in England

    27:11

  3. Tobacco Triumphant: Smoking Fashionable and Universal

    27:46

  4. Tobacco Triumphant (continued) Sellers of Tobacco and Professors of the Art of Smoking

    29:17

  5. Cavalier and Roundhead Smokers

    20:30

  6. Smoking in the Restoration Era

    22:08

  7. Smoking Under King William III and Queen Anne

    29:06

  8. Smoking Unfashionable: Early Georgian Days

    39:00

  9. Smoking Unfashionable (Continued)

    29:13

  10. Signs of Revival

    35:27

  11. Early Victorian Days

    47:09

  12. Later Victorian Days

    22:11

  13. Smoking In The Twentieth Century

    19:34

  14. Smoking by Women

    28:20

  15. Smoking in Church

    16:59

  16. Tobacconists’ Signs

    26:11

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The Social History of Smoking is a book that examines the history of smoking in England from a social standpoint. Unlike books about tobacco cultivation or manufacturing, this book focuses on how smoking has been viewed within society's fashions and customs over time. It explores the changing attitudes towards smoking and its role in societal norms and behaviors.

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G. L. Apperson

G. L. Apperson was the publishing name of George Latimer Apperson, an English writer and editor with a particular interest in language, custom, and the records of everyday life. Born in 1857, he contributed to periodicals and produced reference works on proverbs and familiar sayings as well as books about London.

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First published
1914
Reading time
About 5 hours
Pages
158
Language
English
Formats
PDF, EPUB, MOBI, Read online, Audiobook
Audio read by
Maire Rhode, TriciaG, Anna Roberts and others