Learning to Smoke: Tobacco Use in the West

摘要: Why do people smoke? Taking a unique approach to this question, Jason Hughes moves beyond the usual focus on biological addiction demonstrate how sociocultural and personal understandings of smoking crucially affect way experience it. begins by tracing transformations tobacco its use over time, from role as hallucinogen in Native American shamanistic ritual prophylactic against plague cure for cancer early Europeans, finally current view global pandemic. He then analyzes perspective individual user, exploring consumption relates issues identity life changes. Comparing experiences, ultimately asks what patterns mean clinical treatment smokers public policy smoking. Pointing way, then, more learned sophisticated understanding use, study should prove be valuable reading anyone interested history sociology addiction.