Smoke: A Global History of Smoking
Human beings have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether as a cure or for pleasure, whether as part of a ritual or as an aspect of popular culture. It is curious, then, that no history of smoking has been written based on the assumption that smoking – in all of its forms and products – is a cultural phenomenon common to all human societies.\ Smoke: A Global History of Smoking examines the culture of smoking in different...
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Human beings have always smoked, and they probably always will. Every culture in recorded history has smoked something, whether as a cure or for pleasure, whether as part of a ritual or as an aspect of popular culture. It is curious, then, that no history of smoking has been written based on the assumption that smoking – in all of its forms and products – is a cultural phenomenon common to all human societies.Smoke: A Global History of Smoking examines the culture of smoking in different traditions and locations around the world. From opium dens in Victorian England to tobacco in Edo period Japan, and from ganja and cocaine to Havana cigars, Smoke encompasses the subject as no book has before.Based in cultural history, it employs a large number of images as part of its evidence: around 300 illustrations document smoking and smokers of many substances including tobacco, scented cigarettes, marijuana, opium and cocaine. The various essays examine the changing role of smoking in high and popular culture, ranging from images used in advertising to the legal and moral critiques of smoking, and from opera to the internet. Smoke will appeal to all those who smoke, all those who used to smoke, and all those who have tried, and failed, to give it up.
Introduction9Ritual smoking in Central America30The pleasures and perils of smoking in early modern England38Smoking in sub-Saharan Africa46Tobacco in Iran58Smoking and ayurvedic medicine in India68Tobacco culture in Japan76Smoking in Imperial China84Tobacco in Edo period Japan92How do we smoke? : accessories and utensils100The Belle Epoque of opium108The opium den in Victorian London118Smoking and sociability126Havana cigars and the West's imagination134A century of Kretek140Ganja in Jamaica144Smoking and all that jazz154Smoking in modern China160Smoking in modern Japan172Cigarettes in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia180The cocaine experience190Smoking & sociability197Symbol and image : smoking in art since the seventeenth century206The Houkah in the harem : on smoking and orientalist art218Smoking in opera230In praise of Lady Nicotine : a bygone era of prose, poetry...and presentation236Cinematic smoke : from Weimar to Hollywood248Emblems of emptiness : smoking as a way of life in Jean Eustache's La Maman et al Putain256Smoking & art265Jews and smoking278The commodified African American in nineteenth-century tobacco art286Women and nineteenth-century images of smoking294Toward a queer history of smoking304Gender & ethnicity309Why do we smoke? : the physiology of smoking318Smoking, science, and medicine326Engineering consumer confidence in the twentieth century332Marlboro man and the stigma of smoking344Smoking & advertising355
