| Smoking has been
accepted into culture, in various art forms, and has developed
many distinct, and often conflicting or mutually exclusive,
meanings depending on time, place and the practitioners of
smoking. Pipe smoking, until recently one of the most common
forms of smoking, is today often associated with solemn
contemplation, old age and is often considered quaint and
archaic. Cigarette smoking, which did not begin to become
widespread until the late 19th century, has more associations of
modernity and the faster pace of the industrialized world.
Cigars have been, and still are, associated with masculinity,
power and is an iconic image associated with the stereotypical
capitalist. Smoking in public has for a long time been something
reserved for men and when done by women has been associated with
promiscuity. In Japan during the Edo period, prostitutes and
their clients would often approach one another under the guise
of offering a smoke and the same was true for 19th century
Europe.
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History
1. The tobacco revolution
2. Europe
3. The Middle East
4. East Asia
5. South Asia
6. Sub-Saharan Africa
7. Opium smoking
8. The social stigma
Physiology
1. Smoking substances
Smoking
tools and paraphernalia
Social effects
1. Public health and
crime
Smoking in culture
1. Art
2. Film
3. Literature
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