This book is devoted to the history of tobacco and smoking in St. Petersburg - Leningrad - Petrograd: from the foundation of the city to the present day. Of course, the adventures of tobacco in Russia are considered by the author in the context of the "common history" of tobacco - we learn about how Europeans first encountered it, how they treated cough and headache, how the devil was expelled from smokers and how tobacco was grown with ficus. The author reproduces the history of smoking in the smallest detail, talking about the appearance of the first tobacco factories and the role of cigarettes in Soviet films, how the authorities fought tobacco and, on the contrary, encouraged smokers, how cigarettes were made from fallen leaves in besieged Leningrad and how the culture of snuff... Along the way, it is reported why Empress Catherine II did not smoke tobacco, but sniffed, how does "Rocket" differ from "Sport," what is "pink tobacco" and de-erotized cigarette, where did the shag come from, why are the "sniffers" good, does a tobacco man know how to talk teeth when filter cigarettes appeared in the USSR, why did Leonid Brezhnev shoot cigarettes and even where you can was found tobacco in 1842.