print email comment close Dry Drunk: The Culture of Tobacco in 17th- and 18th-Century Europe URL: http://www.nypl.org/research/chss/spe/art/print/exhibits/drydrunk/intro.htm Description: "The New York Public Library possesses significant collections relating to the history of tobacco, containing materials that cross many different cultures and areas of research. Drawing upon these rich resources, [this exhibition] provides historical context for the uses and abuses of tobacco, showing, among other things, that it has been the focus of endless, if ever-shifting controversy since the moment of its introduction into Europe from the New World." Publisher: New York Public Library Library of Congress Subject Headings: Smoking Tobacco Tobacco -- History LII Database Information: Record 14960 created by Dennis Maness on 03/19/2004 Last modification on 03/24/2004 Published: 03/19/2004   Funding agency: California State Library LII Item ID: http://lii.org/cs/lii/view/item/14960