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Sodomy, smoking, and and the inversion of vices

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“You must have a cigarette.” wrote Oscar Wilde in The Picture of Dorian Gray. “A cigarette is a perfect type of a perfect pleasure. It is exquisite, and it leaves one unsatisfied. What more can […]

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In the Habit: A History of Catholicism and Tobacco

November 9, 2017 John B. Buescher 8

Saints who smoked, popes who puffed, and others who snuffed. […]

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