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Article: Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs / Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris
- Article from:
- Contemporary Drug Problems
- Article date:
- January 1, 1996
- Author:
CopyrightCopyright Federal Legal Publications, Inc. Winter 1996. Provided by ProQuest LLC. (Hide copyright information)
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Hep-Cats, Narcs, and Pipe Dreams: A History of America's Romance with Illegal Drugs, by Jill Jonnes (New York: Scribner, 1996), 510 pp., $30.00 (cloth only).
Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris, by Richard Kluger (New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1996), xix + 807 pp., $35.00 (cloth only).
The social and political history of alcohol, tobacco, and other drug use began to take shape as a distinct field in the 1960s, gained momentum in the 1970s, and fairly exploded in the 1980s and 1990s. At first, important books in the field bore the imprint of and analytical style associated with academic presses. In recent years, ...
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