Drinking smoke : the tobacco syndemic in Oceania / Mac Marshall.

Honolulu : University of Hawaiʻi Press, [2013]

xix, 292 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Introduction and historical background -- Tobacco as a comestible -- Pipe dreams -- Tobacco in indigenous trade -- Tobacco as an object of exchange between islanders and foreigners -- From tobacco trade to tobacco production -- Death, taxes, and tobacco control -- Aotearoa: "land of the long white smoke cloud": Pacific smoke inhalation case study number 1 -- U.S. associated Micronesia: Pacific smoke inhalation case study number 2 -- Native Hawaiians: kānaka maoli: Pacific smoke inhalation case study number 3 -- Tobaccosis: the tobacco syndemic.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 225-284) and index.