Enriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and anti-smoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive study of the Soviet tobacco habit. Tricia Starks examines how the Soviets maintained the first mass smoking society in the world while simultaneously fightin...

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1. Verfasser:	Starks, Tricia 1969- (VerfasserIn)
Format:	Elektronisch E-Book
Sprache:	English
Veröffentlicht:	Ithaca, NY Cornell University Press [2022]
Schriftenreihe:	NIU series in Slavic, East European, and Eurasian studies
Schlagworte:	Consumer Health & Fitness History Soviet & East European History HISTORY / Russia & the Former Soviet Union Cigarettes > Soviet Union > History Smoking > Soviet Union > History Soviets (People) > Tobacco use > History Tobacco industry > Soviet Union > History Tobacco use > Soviet Union > History Tobacco > Soviet Union > History Tabakkonsum Tabak Zigarette Rauchen Genussmittelindustrie Sowjetunion
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Zusammenfassung:	Enriched by color reproductions of tobacco advertisements, packs, and anti-smoking propaganda, Cigarettes and Soviets provides a comprehensive study of the Soviet tobacco habit. Tricia Starks examines how the Soviets maintained the first mass smoking society in the world while simultaneously fighting it. The book is at once a study of Soviet tobacco deeply enmeshed in its social, political, and cultural context and an exploration of the global experience of the tobacco epidemic. Starks examines the Soviet antipathy to tobacco yet capitulation to market; the development of innovative cessation techniques and clinics and the late entry into global anti-tobacco work; the seeming lack of cultural stimuli alongside massive use; and the expansion of smoking without the conventional prompts of capitalist markets. She tells the story of Philip Morris's "Mission to Moscow" campaign for the Soviet market, the triumph of the quintessential capitalist product-the cigarette-in a communist system, and the successes and failures of the world's first national antismoking campaign. The interplay of male habits and health against largely female tobacco producers and medical professionals adds a gendered dimension.Smoking developed, continued, and grew in the Soviet Union without mass production, intensive advertising, seductive industrial design, or product ubiquity. The Soviets were early to condemn tobacco, and yet, by the end of the twentieth century Russians smoked more heavily than most most other nations in the world. Cigarettes and Soviets challenges interpretations of how tobacco use rose in the past and what leads to mass use today.
Beschreibung:	1 Online-Ressource (324 Seiten) Illustrationen
ISBN:	9781501765759
DOI:	10.1515/9781501765759