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 ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. A service member blows vapor into the air at Warrensburg, Missouri, Oct. 2, 2019. (Staff Sgt. Sadie Colbert/U.S. Air Force) (Staff ...

A new documentary series by Eastern Connecticut State University’s film department explores the diverse history of Connecticut’s tobacco heritage and the connected civil rights movement. WSHU’s Eda ...

The annual Asanbe Diversity Symposium will take place this February, featuring Dr. Walter Mignolo, the William H. Wannamaker Distinguished Professor of Romance Studies and Professor of Literature, at ...

Organizers have attached a surgeon general's warning to this year's county-sponsored Black History Month exhibition -- but not because they want people to stay away. The show's focus is tobacco, and ...

A $2.5 million donation announced Thursday will help build a fuller picture of North Carolina’s relationship with tobacco, illuminating narratives of enslaved people and Native Americans that might ...

After more than four centuries of ubiquity and profits, North Carolina’s tobacco production bottomed out in 2020 to a level not seen in nearly 100 years. Now, the state is down to about 1,300 tobacco ...

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 ...

Anyone who has served knows the smoke pit has not vanished.