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Tobacco

Cordry, Harold V. Tobacco: A Reference Handbook. ABC-CLIO, 2001. Authoritative and comprehensive guide to the tobacco industry.

Gately, Iain. Tobacco: A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization. Grove, 2002, 2003. An engaging history of the weed.

Goodman, Jordan. Tobacco in History: The Cultures of Dependence. Routledge, 1993, 1996. All aspects of the controversial plant.

Kluger, Richard. Ashes to Ashes: America's Hundred-Year Cigarette War, the Public Health, and the Unabashed Triumph of Philip Morris. Knopf, 1996. History of the U.S. tobacco industry.

Orey, Michael. Assuming the Risk: The Mavericks, the Lawyers, and the Whistle-Blowers Who Beat Big Tobacco. Little, Brown, 1999. A behind-the-scene account of the ground-breaking case that defeated the tobacco industry.

Van Willigen, John, and Susan C. Eastwood. Tobacco Culture: Farming Kentucky's Burley Belt. University Press of Kentucky, 1998. Growing tobacco, from the perspective of farmers.