Category: History

Young people took up smoking during the pandemic – how tobacco has been used for stress relief for more than a century

8 January 2024

Through his research interest in the smoking habits of people in war-time Britain, Dr Michael Reeve, a Lecturer in Modern British History, shows us how social disruption and stress, over time, has drawn people towards tobacco. In the UK and much of the west, smoking rates have consistently declined since the turn of the millennium. […]

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