Tobacco Leaves: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers

Brennan, William Augustine, 1867-Project Gutenberg · United StatesDec 2019

Rating 2.7
Word count
204K words
Chapters
21

Tags

English Originals Agriculture Forestry Livestock Business HistoryPlant UtilizationIndustry WatchTriviaDaily ReflectionsLife WisdomPractical GuideConsumer GuidePopular ExplanationSmoking Culture

Summary

Project Gutenberg was the first provider of free electronic books, or eBooks. Michael Hart, founder of Project Gutenberg, invented eBooks in 1971 and his memory continues to inspire the creation of eBooks and related technologies today.Tobacco Leaves: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers by William Augustine BrennanAuthor: Brennan, William Augustine, 1867-,Language: English, Class: SB: Agriculture: Plant culture, Release Date: Sep 11, 2011

Editor's review

This is an informational book about tobacco and smokers, organized by the author as a "compilation of facts," covering topics such as the botanical properties, processing, and use of tobacco leaves; it is an early text leaning toward practical knowledge and popular education. As a public-domain e-book, it preserves the perspectives and habits of expression regarding tobacco from a century ago. For today's readers, its value lies not in providing the latest conclusions but in showing how an era understood and talked about tobacco. Reading it offers basic common knowledge about tobacco leaves while conveying the plain style of practical agricultural writing. It is suitable for readers interested in tobacco history, plant culture, or old-style practical manuals to browse as reference material, and also for writers and researchers who need historical corpus material. It should be noted that the views in the book carry the limitations of their time; content involving health and consumption should be read in comparison with modern research and should not be taken directly as a guide for today.

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Reading tips

  1. First browse the table of contents and chapter titles, then choose the section on the botanical properties of tobacco leaves for close reading according to interest.
  2. Mark time-specific expressions while reading for later comparison with modern materials.
  3. Treat it as a reference book rather than a book to read straight through; focus on one or two topics at a time.
  4. If the English original is difficult, read paragraph by paragraph with a dictionary, focusing on grasping concepts rather than details.

About the publisher

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Contents

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FAQ

Is this book suitable for learning about modern health risks of smoking? Not very suitable. This book is an early compilation of facts reflecting how tobacco was understood and described a century ago and does not include conclusions from modern medical research. For health risks, consult contemporary public health and medical materials; this book is better used as a reference for historical and conceptual comparison.
Can readers without a tobacco industry background understand it? Yes. The book is mainly written in a popular fact-entry style with low terminology density, and general readers can grasp the main ideas with a dictionary. The focus should be on understanding basic concepts related to tobacco leaves and the perspective of the era; there is no need for word-by-word close reading, and selective reading by topic is easier.
What should be noted when reading it as a public-domain e-book? Public-domain e-books preserve the original text's habits of expression and may contain statements limited by their time or inconsistent with today's understanding. It is advisable to read with a critical awareness, treat the content as historical material, and cross-check conclusions involving health and consumption against modern sources.

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About the author

Brennan, William Augustine, 1867- Author · 1867

Brennan, William Augustine (1867-) is the author of a practical guide written for smokers. Very little is publicly known about his life and background: all that can be confirmed is that he was born in 1867, and that one work by him is held in the collection. That work, Tobacco Leaves: Being a Book of Facts for Smokers, is, as its title indicates, an informational book aimed at people who smoke, intended to set out facts and useful knowledge about tobacco and smoking rather than to offer a literary narrative. Books of this kind commonly cover the cultivation and processing of tobacco, its varieties, and the ways it is consumed, serving ordinary readers who wish to look things up. Because verifiable biographical material is so scarce, little more can be said about his style or influence; the surviving work nonetheless addresses a clearly defined readership and values factual content and readability, making it of interest to readers curious about early writing on tobacco.