Iain Gately, a British author, Cambridge scholar, and cigar smoker, has written a fascinating cultural history of tobacco use. In Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced ...

Think what you will about the merits of tobacco, but it has a rich, complex history, at least as told by London journalist Iain Gately, who confesses at the start of his fascinating book that he ...

Cigarette maker Altria Group (NYSE: MO) is best known for its Marlboro brand, and under its current corporate structure, tobacco dominates its overall business. With the exception of a small wine ...

Let me begin by stating that this column is nothing to sneeze at. This is getting to be a habit. There I was sitting down to Asian cuisine when a friend asked “Jim, where did ‘up-to-snuff’ come from?” ...

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MONTGOMERY COUNTY, Tenn. (WKRN) — The Montgomery County area is famous for its tobacco. Its history growing dark-fired tobacco took root generations ago. Today, American Snuff Co. employs hundreds at ...

Here it is—everything you ever wanted to know about tobacco, from Amerindian prehistory right up to the Clinton/Lewinsky cigar tryst. As Gately traces the role of tobacco in history's major military ...