Smoking opium had attracted unfavorable notice from temperance advocates, missionaries and moral reformers. Inflamed by anti-Chinese sentiment, ...

That stopped my opium smoking, that “You cannot escape us now”; because, as I said, you get caught, and your feet are stuck in the glue, ...

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A riveting new history of opium, a lucrative and destructive flower. Amitav Ghosh’s sweeping, forcefully written ‘Smoke and Ashes’ covers centuries in the life of the plant ...

It was in Javanese ports that Chinese sailors learned the habit of smoking tobacco dipped in Dutch-made liquid opium. They brought the practice back to Chinese port cities, where opium dens ...

Open the door to Islam Beg's house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It's just past 8 a.m. and the family of six — including a 1-year ...

SARAB, Afghanistan -- Open the door to Islam Beg's house and the thick opium smoke rushes out into the cold mountain air, like steam from a bathhouse. It's just past 8 a.m. and the family of six ...

SMOKE AND ASHES: Opium’s Hidden Histories, by Amitav Ghosh. Biographies of humble things that their authors claimed had “changed the world” — chronometers, salt, ...