This is a history of the first anti-cigarette movement, dating from the Victorian Age to the Great Depression, when cigarettes were both legally restricted and stigmatized in America. It shows that the movement voiced every issue that is still being debated about smoking today. a compelling work of cultural history. Better than any other scholar to date, she highlights the frenwied atte;pts by various reformers to rid society of what Henry Ford once termed the "little white slaver" through prohibition schemes before and after World War I.