(Tobacco, Smoking, Narcotics, Anti Smoking.) Jesse Eaglin: '...

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£70

(Tobacco, Smoking, Narcotics, Anti Smoking.) Jesse Eaglin: 'The CC Cough-fin Brand Cigarettes', Cincinatti, OH, Raisbeck & Co for the author, [1931], 1st edition, 196pp, original pictorial card wraps, front cover depicting a skeleton seated on a coffin, smoking a cigarette and with the quote beneath "They don't hurt me.". Scarce anti smoking and anti drugs book, with contents page titled "The Cigarette Curse" and chapters with content including "The Introduction of Tobacco in Europe. Its Misrepresentation and Violent Opposition...King James' Famous Counterblast on Tobacco", "A Survey of Nations Ruined by Tobacco", "History of Cocaine, Coca, Incense and Tobacco", "Origin of the Chinese, their Rise to Power and Ruin by the Opium Habit...History of the Poison Drug", "Hashish, Bang, Belladonna, Heroin and Henbane", "...Tobacco...A Mistaken Luxury; Chemical Analysis. Poisonous Nature...", "The Cigarette Nuisance is an Infringement on the Rights of Others in Public Places" etc etc.