Smoke Signals: The Native Takeback of North America's Tobacco Industry
- ISBN-10
- 1459706404
- ISBN-13
- 9781459706408
- Series
- Smoke Signals
- Category
- History
- Pages
- 253
- Language
- English
- Published
- 2012
- Publisher
- Dundurn
- Author
- Jim Poling
Description
The history and current state of tobacco from its Native origins in South America's Andes through its checkered history in North America as a "miracle" drug, powerful narcotic, friend of government revenue departments, and law-enforcement target as contraband and tax diversion are traced.
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