Tobacco History

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    • A Cultural History of How an Exotic Plant Seduced Civilization
    • By: Iain Gately
    • Narrated by: Christopher Grove
    • Length: 12 hrs and 35 mins
    • Release date: 08-13-15
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 267 ratings
    • Informed and erudite, Tobacco is a vivid and provocative look into the complex history of this precious plant....

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    • By: Toby Wilkinson
    • Narrated by: Michael Page
    • Length: 18 hrs and 53 mins
    • Release date: 09-12-17
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 1,090 ratings
    • In this landmark work, one of the world's most renowned Egyptologists tells the epic story of this great civilization, from its birth as the first nation-state to its final absorption....

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    • A History of Tobacco and Chocolate in the Atlantic World
    • By: Marcy Norton
    • Narrated by: Cynthia Wallace
    • Length: 12 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 01-05-15
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 14 ratings
    • Sacred Gifts, Profane Pleasures traces the ways in which these two goods of the Americas both changed and were changed by Europe....

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    • By: Colleen Hoover
    • Narrated by: Olivia Song
    • Series: It Ends with Us, Book 1
    • Length: 11 hrs and 11 mins
    • Release date: 08-02-16
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 83,978 ratings
    • Lily hasn’t always had it easy, but that’s never stopped her from working hard for the life she wants. She’s come a long way from the small town where she grew up—she graduated from college, moved to Boston, and started her own business....

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    • A Political History
    • By: Sarah Milov
    • Narrated by: Janet Metzger
    • Length: 14 hrs and 31 mins
    • Release date: 12-19-19
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 13 ratings
    • Tobacco is the quintessential American product. From Jamestown to the Marlboro Man, the plant occupied the heart of the nation's economy and expressed its enduring myths. But today smoking rates have declined and smokers are exiled from many public spaces...

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    • By: Leon Neyfakh, Prologue Projects
    • Narrated by: Leon Neyfakh, Arielle Pardes
    • Series: Backfired
    • Length: 7 hrs and 21 mins
    • Release date: 06-20-24
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 372 ratings
    • Backfired is the latest podcast from Prologue Projects, the award-winning team behind Slow Burn, Fiasco, and Think Twice: Michael Jackson. Backfired is a show about the business of unintended consequences—what happens when solving one problem inadvertently leads to a host of new ones?

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    • Ayahuasca, Tobacco, and the Pursuit of Knowledge
    • By: Jeremy Narby, Rafael Chanchari Pizuri - contributor
    • Narrated by: Jonathan Yen
    • Length: 3 hrs and 6 mins
    • Release date: 08-31-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 62 ratings
    • In Plant Teachers, Narby and Pizuri hold a cross-cultural dialogue that explores the similarities between ayahuasca and tobacco, the role of these plants in indigenous cultures, and the hidden truths they reveal about nature....

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    • By: Mark Twain
    • Narrated by: Larry G. Jones
    • Length: 4 mins
    • Release date: 06-07-18
    • Language: English
    • 3.5 out of 5 stars 9 ratings
    • Mark Twain’s speech “Cigars and Tobacco” details his storied history with those two substances and his search for the “worst cigar in the New York Market.” It’s a brief treat for anyone who’s ever wondered about Twain’s tobacco consumption....

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    • By: Erskine Caldwell
    • Narrated by: Mark Hammer
    • Length: 6 hrs and 30 mins
    • Release date: 11-22-11
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 113 ratings
    • Earthy, raunchy and high spirited, this story of larkabout Jeeter Lester’s struggle to keep his farm is one of the most poignant and humorous in Depression-era literature and an American classic....

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    • How a Handful of Scientists Obscured the Truth on Issues from Tobacco Smoke to Global Warming
    • By: Naomi Oreskes, Erik M. Conway, Al Gore - foreword
    • Narrated by: Liza Seneca
    • Length: 14 hrs and 23 mins
    • Release date: 06-01-23
    • Language: English
    • 5 out of 5 stars 34 ratings
    • Merchants of Doubt tells, with “brutal clarity” (Huffington Post), the disquieting story of how a loose-knit group of high-level scientists and scientific advisers ran effective campaigns to mislead the public and deny well-established scientific knowledge over four decades....

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    • By: Erskine Caldwell
    • Narrated by: John MacDonald
    • Length: 5 hrs and 22 mins
    • Release date: 11-05-09
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 443 ratings
    • Set during the Depression in the depleted farmlands surrounding Augusta, Georgia, Tobacco Road was first published in 1932....

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    • The Incendiary Rise of Juul
    • By: Jamie Ducharme
    • Narrated by: Sean Patrick Hopkins
    • Length: 10 hrs and 10 mins
    • Release date: 05-25-21
    • Language: English
    • 4.5 out of 5 stars 26 ratings
    • A propulsive, eye-opening work of reporting, chronicling the rise of Juul and the birth of a new addiction....

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    • A Kentucky Family Tragedy in the Tobacco Wars (1904-1911)
    • By: Laura Muntz Derr
    • Narrated by: Erin Fossa
    • Length: 4 hrs and 43 mins
    • Release date: 12-09-14
    • Language: English
    • 4 out of 5 stars 1 rating
    • The audiobook version of Nick and Viola is enhanced by the creative musical talents of Dave Skinner, Texas-based guitarist, singer-songwriter, and composer....

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