After the Tobacco Roads conference, we hope to be able to put together a book with a selection of conference papers representing an interdisciplinary approach on the issues that were raised and discussed during the conference. The volume’s aim, reflected in the choice of paper and editing process, will be to approach the issues in a way that places the overall subject matter in an even broader context. We believe that this will contribute in underlining the relevance and interest of the conference’s topics to many other directions of research. Authors will be informed individually about the final format of their papers.