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Learning to Smoke (Hardcover)
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Learning to Smoke (Hardcover)
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Why do people smoke? Taking a unique approach to this question,
Jason Hughes moves beyond the usual focus on biological addiction
that dominates news coverage and public health studies and invites
us to reconsider how social and personal understandings of smoking
crucially affect the way people experience it. "Learning to Smoke"
examines the diverse sociological and cultural processes that have
compelled people to smoke since the practice was first introduced
to the West during the sixteenth century.
Hughes traces the transformations of tobacco and its use over time,
from its role as a hallucinogen in Native American shamanistic
ritual to its use as a prophylactic against the plague and a cure
for cancer by early Europeans, and finally to the current view of
smoking as a global pandemic. He then analyzes tobacco from the
perspective of the individual user, exploring how its consumption
relates to issues of identity and life changes. Comparing
sociocultural and personal experiences, Hughes ultimately asks what
the patterns of tobacco use mean for the clinical treatment of
smokers and for public policy on smoking. Pointing the way, then,
to a more learned and sophisticated understanding of tobacco use,
this study will prove to be essential reading for anyone interested
in the history of smoking and the sociology of addiction.
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