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This text is representative of the best kind of social history: one which combines in-depth historical research with the insights of sociology and cultural studies. Ruth Waterhouse, Sociology of Health & Illness, Staffordshire University Histories of tobacco consumption tend to have a strong cultural flavour. Jarrett Rudy's fluidly written, gracefully organized monograph on the history of smoking in Montreal represents no exception. [Rudy] deftly avoids the pitfall of repetition while managing to frame his entertaining anecdotes with serious analysis. The Freedom to Smoke offers a wealth of material for historians of liberalism. Barbara Hahn, Business History Review A sophisticated book that illuminates how smoking, an unremarkable practice of everyday life, became the battleground for defending and contesting hierarchies of class, ethnicity/race, and gender. Keith Walden, history, Trent University

This is a sophisticated book that illuminates how smoking, an unremarkable practice of everyday life, became the battleground for defending and contesting hierarchies of class, ethnicity/race, and gender. Keith Walden, Trent University ... the distinguishing feature of Freedom to Smoke is its permeating analysis of ethnicity ... --Medical History, July 2007 51 (3)

This text is representative of the best kind of social history: one which combines in-depth historical research with the insights of sociology and cultural studies. Ruth Waterhouse, Sociology of Health & Illness, Staffordshire University Histories of tobacco consumption tend to have a strong cultural flavour. Jarrett Rudy's fluidly written, gracefully organized monograph on the history of smoking in Montreal represents no exception. [Rudy] deftly avoids the pitfall of repetition while ma A sophisticated book that illuminates how smoking, an unremarkable practice of everyday life, became the battleground for defending and contesting hierarchies of class, ethnicity/race, and gender. Keith Walden, history, Trent University

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Jarrett Rudy is assistant professor, Department of History, McGill University.

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