Tobacco Books

This book covers Pipes, Cigars, Cigarettes, How to Buy a pipe, How to blend Tobacco, How to smoke a cigar and the care of tobacco products.

This book covers pipes, cigars, cigarettes, how to buy a pipe, how to blend tobacco, how to smoke a cigar, and the care of tobacco products. Cover price $1.95. Despite a photograph of the historic and only complete money-roll of tobacco found in George Washington's personal chest after his death, this book does NOT talk about tobacco's significant history or influence, and for that reason I find the title misleading and the contents wanting. This book is a straightforward instruction in how to use the industry's products, what to expect when buying different tobaccos and tobacciana. For the last reason, it may be of interest to beginning collectors of tobacciana, however do NOT buy it in hopes of learning about tobacco's history.

Bear Tracks is a must read for new and old law agents and general public that can be entertained by real life situation in the law enforcement business. Enjoyable tails from how to make booz and not-get-away-from-it, to real situation humor. This book will liven your sense of rizibility. An easy read.

While the text is pretty good and the historic pictures are fine, there should have been more contemporary photos to show the Connecticut River Valley Today and how people are using the barns today.

Although not an exciting read, this book should greatly interest the die-hard cigar aficionado and the botanist alike; it contains wonderful photographs and information on traditional and newly developed tobacco varieties, diseases, processing and cultivation.

Excellent story about a family's struggle with a terrible disease. Puts a name to the face of this "silent killer" which nobody seems to want to talk about! Highly recommended, especially for young adults to read!! I applaud the author for having the courage to put their experience down in writing!A++++

I am only a very occasional smoker, and don't like inhaling other people's fumes. The book raises a lot of questions that need to be asked, and indeed, if you bother to check WHO stats online, there is no clear correlation between rates of lung cancer and rates of smoking. I would like to add my two cents:

1. Bill Dufty's book Sugar Blues mentioned a 1972 BBC documentary that made a connection between tobacco adulterated with sugar and other additives, and additive free tobacco, and lung cancer. Apparently, US makers of cigarettes are not required to list these additives. Virginia style flue cured tobacco is also seen as a possible culprit - it raises the sugar content of the leaf much higher than air drying. Cigar tobacco is often air cured. Many cigarettes are combined air and flue cured tobacco. Russian, Chinese and Taiwanese cigarettes at that time (70's) were made of air dried tobacco, and no correlation between lung cancer and rates of smoking could be found in those countries.

2. I lived in Japan for 8 years. I didn't find the Japanese diet particularly healthy - it consists of a lot of beer drinking and believe in or not, deep fried foods - fried shrimp, oysters, and croquettes are especially popular, and the high salt content leads to mini strokes in the brain and early senility. I also question the so called longevity - I wouldn't be surprised if the Okinawans were taken out of the picture that the death rate might be on a par with the US. Also, Japan has an astronomical rate of stomach cancer - maybe due to the talc they put in the rice to keep it from sticking?

However, it is true that lung cancer rates are lower than the US, even though the Japanese smoke more. Is this due to air cured tobacco?

As for smoking "freedom" in Japan, the government in the early 90's had instituted sanctions against smoking on train platforms, however smoking in private establishments is still in a large part unregulated. There are now smoking and non-smoking sections of restaurants, something which didn't exist prior to the 90's in Japan.

3. I have to wonder why there has been such a war declared on tobacco while commercials advertising both beer and pharmaceuticals seem to have increased tenfold. Moreover, beer commercials are aimed primarily at youth - doesn't anyone consider drunkeness, liver damage and drunk driving to be hazards? Why is this happening? Well, at the risk of sounding goofy, Fritz Springmeier (Bloodlines of the Illuminati) mentioned somewhere that the Reynolds family is on the outs with the other Illuminati families. Maybe the war on tobacco is a turf war between ruling elitists? Why aren't we protecting our children from drunk drivers with the same ferocity? It just seems so strange that we focus so hard on tobacco as a health hazard and ignore alcohol, and pharmaceuticals that can cause sudden death (among other, numerous side effects).

Great romp through history and literature, definitely free-association. If you enjoy cigars, literature, movies, history, etc, this is a fun book to read. Enjoy in small bites, its pretty rich. Perhaps the experience is a bit like enjoying a cigar: smoke one now, savor it, but don't smoke through the entire box all at once!

I thought this book was a good read with sound and practical advice for those who want to quit smoking. It dealt with issues specifically related to women such as emotional sabotage and wgt gain, and dealt with them honestly. As someone who is currently trying to become an ex-smoker I will keep this as a reference and would recommend it. The only reason it got four stars instead of 5 is, nothing is perfect but this is a good book.

For anyone interested in the history of the tabacco industry in the dominican republic this is the book for you. For many years this dominican industry was ignored by all, but with the surge in popularity of hand-rolled cigars it has leaped to the forefront.

Mr Baud gives a detailed and intuitive account of the development of this industry.

Hopefully the next edition will have a foreword on the current state of the industry and the effect that its early development had.