But our time is not theirs, and once Klein had written his groundbreaking cultural history of the cigarette in 1993, the study, as the author admits in the acknowledgments, was long overdue. The bookhis first, late in a career as a French professor at Cornellwas an attempt to quit, and on both counts Klein succeeded, surveying with the clarity of a fresh convert tobaccos contemporaneity with the Age of Anxiety: modernity, whose origins in the sixteenth century coincide with the introduction of the plant to Europe
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Under cover and safe from the worst conditions as regards the weather, 14,000 people are able to watch the show in comfort, while so far as the performers are concerned, if it rains cats and dog, the programme is gone through in its entirety