Abstract: The use by children and the young of alcohol, tobacco, films and pulp novels in the years before the outbreak of the First World War was a subject of extensive concern. The debate about tobacco, film and the pulp fiction took on the character of moral panics, while the alcohol issue remained a moral crusade which functioned as a kind of underlying sounding‐board for the three panics. Starting with the issue of children's tobacco smoking I give an account of the content and protagonists of the panics, their rhetoric and their views of children...
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Topics: 
Criminology
Media studies
Gender studies