Special Needs, Cheerful Habits: Smoking and the Great War in Britain, 1914–18

Reeve, Michael (2016). Special Needs, Cheerful Habits: Smoking and the Great War in Britain, 1914–18. Cultural and Social History, 13(4) pp. 483–501.

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1080/14780038.2016.1237409

Abstract

This article applies an interpretive anthropological and phenomenological approach to the Great War in Britain, 1914–18, focusing on the cigarette as a cultural artefact and material commodity, and smoking as a cultural motif and social practice. The primary material featured includes personal correspondence from soldiers and civilians, newspaper articles, advertising and fictional literature. The fundamental task carried out by this study is the connection of developments in technology and distribution accelerated by the Great War, with smoking as a practice bound up with the social, cultural and material conditions in which those on the front found themselves.

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