Volume 1, Number 9 · December 26, 1963
The Habit
By William Styron
The Consumers Union Report on Smoking and the Public Interest
by Ruth Brecher, by Edward Brecher et al.
Consumers Union of the U.S., Inc.; distributed by Simon and Schuster, 222 pp., $1.50 (paper)
The lamentable history of the cigarette is that of a mortally corrupting addiction having been embraced by millions of people in the spirit of childlike innocence. It is a history which is also strikingly briet. Cigarettes began to be manufactured extensively around the turn of the century, but it was not until as recently as 1921 that cigarettes overtook chewing tobacco, as well as pipes and cigars, in per capita consumption, and the 1930s were well along before cigarette smoking became the accepted thing for ladies.
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