tobacco monopoly in colonial Mexico, whose revenues in the later half of the eighteenth century were second only to the silver … detailed quantitative data and rare material on the urban working poor of colonial Mexico, Bureaucrats, Planters, and Workers … will be important reading for all students of social, economic, and labor history, especially of Mexico and Latin America …

This country brief provides an overview of Tobacco Use, Tobacco Control Legislation, and Taxation in Mexico …