partly offset by declining rates of smoking. This paper examines historical trends in tobacco excise, focussing on the recent …Tobacco excise has grown strongly over the last few years as significant increases in the excise rate have been only … past including the impact of significant policy changes over the last decade, and then discusses how tobacco excise is …

In writing the life of tobacco in Bulgaria from the late Ottoman period through the years of Communist rule, Neuburger …Balkan Smoke -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- 1. Coffeehouse Babble: Smoking and Sociability in the … Long Nineteenth Century -- 2. No Smoke without Fire: Tobacco and Transformation, 1878-1914 -- 3. From the Orient Express to …