First edition of this rare self-published Jazz Age guide to quitting smoking, addressed to the lay reader.
Very good minus.
Price: $600.00
"This work I believe is uinique, in that it stands alone as being one work, devoted entirely to the subject of tobacco, and written in an easily understood manner."
An early book on tobacco cessation, focusing almost entirely on its deleterious health effects and recognizing its addictive qualities — in stark contrast to most other approaches from the period (and before), which typically objected on grounds of temperance or morality. Crossland's approach is uncommonly scientific, anticipating not only the coming medical consensus of the 1950s and '60s, but also recognizing the pernicious influence of advertising on tobacco adoption — a combination that presages Surgeon General Luther L. Terry's landmark 1964 report "Smoking and Health." We find little about Crossland in archival and genealogical records and OCLC does not record the title. A rare, early, and prescient work on nicotine addiction.
Los Angeles: F. Bert Crossland, (1928). 7.5'' x 5.5''. Original full red cloth with gilt titles. 160 pages. Bit shaken, worn. Overall, sound.
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