Fumo : Italy's love affair with the cigarette /
Carl Ipsen.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, (c)2016.
- 1 online resource.
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : first puff -- Toscano : smoking in Italy before World War I -- Macedonia : smoking between the wars -- Eva : women and smoking before World War II -- Nazionali : smoking and poverty in post-war Italy -- Camels : women, sex, and americane in the post-war decades -- Me ne frego : smoking and risk -- MS : men, women, and smoking in the era of collective action -- MS mild : the anti-smoking era in Italy -- Pall Mall : contraband and privatization -- Epilogue : cicca.