And while the death toll from smoking may be its most striking legacy, the study of smoking also reveals aspects of social, cultural, economic and political history, all areas that I explore in my monograph on the history of smoking in Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.[i] In what follows I present some of the available smoking statistics in post-World War II Italy and close with an observation on mortality
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