"Maddie Sykes is a burgeoning seamstress who's just arrived in Bright Leaf, North Carolina--the tobacco capital of the South--where her aunt has a thriving sewing business. After years of war rations and shortages, Bright Leaf is a prosperous wonderland in full technicolor bloom, and Maddie is dazzled by the bustle of the crisply uniformed female factory workers, the palatial homes, and, most of all, her aunt's glossiest clientele: the wives of the...

"Big Tobacco meets Silicon Valley in this corporate exposé of what happened when two of the most notorious industries collided--and the vaping epidemic was born. Howard Willard lusted after Juul. As the CEO of tobacco giant Philip Morris's parent company, and a veteran of the industry's long fight to avoid being regulated out of existence, he grew obsessed with a prize he believed could save his company--the e-cigarette, a product with all the addictive...

The Cigarette: A Political History offers a fresh interpretation of tobacco's role in the twentieth century. It argues that tobacco played a vital and emblematic role in the history of twentieth century political economy. Far from being unregulated, tobacco was the most controlled and supported commodity produced in the United States during the twentieth century. The federal tobacco program was remarkably long lived, lasting nearly seven decades and...

Parrish McLean lives with his mother Ellen on Sala Post's tobacco plantation in the Connecticut River Valley. His mother winds up marrying Sala's rival Judd Raike, a ruthless planter who wants to drive Sala out of business. Judd insists that Parrish learn the business from the ground up.

"Isla de La Palma, 1876 Miguel y Alejandro son gemelos y acaban de heredar la fábrica de tabacos La Indiana tras la repentina y misteriosa muerte de su padre. Ambos quieren continuar con el negocio familiar, pero descubren que su padre estaba arruinado y les había ocultado las deudas. No tienen más opción que malvender la fábrica. Hasta que Eliana aparece en sus vidas, una joven cubana que acaba de instalarse en La Palma para rehacer su vida...