By Relli Shechter
ISBN-10: 1845111370
ISBN-13: 9781845111373
This e-book demonstrates how the historical past of Egypt's tobacco behavior from the water pipe to the Marlboro mild mirrors wider socio-economic advancements. Shechter starts off within the mid nineteenth century, while tobacco was once produced for export to the West and indicates how within the early twentieth century the promoting and intake of tobacco strengthened social stratification. within the modern center East, Shechter reveals that smoking conduct became intertwined with generational and id politics. enticing with state-of-the-art social conception and a various diversity of resource fabric, this can be a stimulating and informative learn.
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According to Politis, the Greek consul-general, M. 28 The Greek consul lobbied for limitation of the area in which tobacco was cultivated as a first step in bringing about a total ban on cultivation. Supporting the consul were two prominent Greek tobacco merchants, Simeonidis and Papathanassopoulo, who submitted petitions to the Egyptian government, demonstrating the economic benefits for the treasury in banning local cultivation. 32 The effect on cultivation was immediate. 35 In his report Riad Pasha argued BUILDING AINTRODUCTION NEW INDUSTRY IN EGYPT 35 that locally grown tobacco reduced the government’s revenues from customs on imports.
7 Traditional manufacturing was 30 SMOKING, CULTURE AND ECONOMY IN THE MIDDLE EAST gradually making way for production in workshops, and to a lesser extent factories, where work was more regimented and the pipe not welcomed. Because its components were so minimal, the cigarette could satisfy the tastes of the majority of Egyptians who lived close to subsistence level, albeit with lower quality of tobacco and wrapping paper. Furthermore, in the modern selling establishments, which opened in the new commercial districts of the big cities, old bazaar practices such as smoking the chibouk and drinking coffee with the client disappeared.
Egypt would develop an entirely new tobacco market that also catered to a new consumer demand for a novel commodity – the cigarette. INTRODUCTION 27 2 BUILDING A NEW INDUSTRY IN EGYPT The history of the Egyptian cigarette industry breaks away from the usual import-substituting-industrialization (ISI) story on the peripher y, and presents an alternative – the establishment of an export-led industry based on local manufacturing advantages and talent. It also highlights the significance of early consumer demand, which is usually little discussed, in a successful transition into modern production.
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