Name: The Cigarette: Leaf, Smoke, Empire
Author: Ketineni Ramarao

Cover of The Cigarette: Leaf, Smoke, Empire, a book by Ketineni Ramarao - Industries of India

The cigarette is leaf, smoke and empire rolled into a paper tube. This book follows tobacco from the field to the cigarette machine, the industry that conquered the world with it, and the long reckoning over its harm.

165 pages · Published November 2026 · Free to read as a PDF

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The Cigarette - the book (PDF) 165 pages · 0.8 MB The Cigarette - source companion (PDF) 12 pages · 0.1 MB

Every reference number in the book resolves in the source companion: what each source is, how fully it was read, and its limits.

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Tobacco

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