You probably already know of these: John C. Burnham, Bad Habits: Drinking, Smoking, Taking Drugs, Gambling, Sexual Misbehavior, and Swearing in American History (New York: New York University Press, 199 and Robert L. Rabin and Stephen D. Sugarman, editors, Smoking Policy: Law, Politics and Culture (New York: Oxford University Press, 1993. Their approaches are very different and so are the sources they consulted, but they should provide good views to frame your work and point to some useful materials. I've not read them closely yet, but will soon as I have to write a joint review on them and another work for the Journal of Policy History. Richard F. Hamm History Department Ten Broeck 105 University at Albany, Suny Albany, NY 12222 [log in to unmask]