Fumo : Italy's love affair with the cigarette / Carl Ipsen.

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2016.

xiv, 272 pages, 12 unnumbered pages of plates : black and white illustrations ; 23 cm

Includes bibliographical references 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.