This book can offer some compensation to today's legally cursed smokers. Since its first publication in 1937, the detailed and entertaining cultural history work discussing this "sinful" passion of mankind has had no equal in our country. Remethey enthusiastically defends tobacco and explains the history of its discovery, as well as the ways of consuming it, from smoking pipes and cigars to snuff to the world fashion of smoking cigarettes, which overshadows all of this. The past eighty years have not detracted from the book's thoroughness covering every detail, and its findings are largely still relevant today. He speaks out in favor of the beneficial physiological effects of tobacco, tries to refute its bad reputation of harming health, and emphasizes that the "nervous man" of the modern world needs the momentary pleasure and relaxation provided by smoking. In dozens of anecdotes, he brings to life the great and famous figures of smoking, as well as women's relationship with smoking. The book illustrations were created by Károly Mühlbeck, a well-known draftsman of his time, which we supplemented with photos of tobacco factories, tobacconists and tobacco products of the time.