Excerpt from The Story of the Cigarette
Although there is no end to the making of many books, there has never been, until now, a beginning to the making of one authoritative book about the cigarette. Legions of industrial volumes have been written and published, and more and more are being written and published every year. From the digging of ore below the earth to the flying of airships above it, there is scarcely any business or trade that has not inspired its scores of codexes, manuals and tomes, each treating its especial subject from one of a score of angles.
Books about tobacco in general are, moreover, sufficiently numerous and weighty; so are books about cigars and books about pipes. But, on the specific subject of the cigarette, no serious and informative work has been compiled. Even magazine articles and pamphlets have been few, and nearly all of these are biased - the controversial utterances of the agents or zealots of a propaganda.
This is the more strange when one considers the scope of the cigarette industry and the arguments that it has aroused. There is no state in the Union in which the cigarette has not been the object of legislation; there is no village so small but the cigarette has entered the lists of its local controversies.
For nearly half a century the manufacture of cigarettes has been one of the leading industries of the United States.
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