Canadians as a Cigarette Nation, 1930 to 1975

Witness to Yesterday (The Champlain Society Podcast on Canadian History)

In this podcast episode, Greg Marchildon interviews Daniel J. Robinson,. He is the author of Cigarette Natio: Business, Health, and Canadian Smokers, 1930–1975 published by McGill-Queen’s University Press in 2021. Robinson’s account illustrates how smoking became a habit for over half of Canadians, both men and women, by the early postwar period. This book is part of a new McGill-Queen’s “Intoxicating Histories” series edited by medical historians Virginia Berridge, Erika Dyck and Noelle Plack. An associate professor in the Faculty of Information & Media Studies at the University of Western Ontario Professor Robinson has previously written books on the history of communications and polling in Canada as well as on the history of the print and broadcast media.

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