Smoke Signals: Women, Smoking and Visual Culture (Leisure, Consumption and Culture) – Penny Tinkler Lage Kosten

Every year, thousands of women attempt to kick their smoking habit because it is an unhealthy, expensive addiction. And every year, thousands do not quit because of nicotine cravings and because smoking has an image which is almost as addictive as the cigarette itself. It is seductive and alluring – but where does this image come from, and has it always been so deadly? In Smoke Signals, Tinkler charts women’s changing relationship to tobacco from the 1880s to the 1980s, during which time smoking transformed…