Smoking
An exploration of the global experience of the tobacco epidemic via the Soviet Union and modern Britain. How did smoking triumph for so long in such radically opposed societies?
Laurie Taylor talks to Ivan Markovic, Lecturer in Human Geography at Durham University, about the unique social atmosphere surrounding tobacco use in modern Britain, from its encouragement as part of the 成人快手 Front 鈥榤ood management鈥� during the Second World War to the impact of smoking on 1980s workplace regulations and the UK ban on its use in public places in 2007. Does smoking still play a significant part in the British cultural imagination? Also, Tricia Starks, Professor of History at the University of Arkansas, discusses cigarettes and the Soviet smoking habit. How did the USSR become the first mass smoking society whilst simultaneously opposing this quintessential capitalist product?
Producer: Jayne Egerton
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Cigarettes and Soviets: Smoking in the USSR (Cornell University Press)听
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