The smoking book
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"The Smoking Book is a dreamlike structure built on the solid foundation of two questions: how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? Lesley Stern, in an innovative, hybrid form of writing, muses on these questions through interesting stories and essays that connect, expand, and contract like smoke rings floating through the air."—BOOK JACKET.
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"Stern writes of addictions and passionate attachments, of the body and bodily pleasure, of autobiography and cultural history. Stern has written a book, at once intensely personal and kaleidoscopically international, that weaves the intimate act of a solitary person smoking a cigarette into a broad cultural picture of desire, exchange, fulfillment, and the acts that bind people together, either in lasting ways or through ephemeral encounters."—BOOK JACKET.
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Cigarettes Are Sublime
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Against Health: How Health Became the New Morality (Biopolitics Series)
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The Easy Way to Stop Smoking: Join the Millions Who Have Become Nonsmokers Using the Easyway Method