Smoke : a global history of smoking / edited by Sander L. Gilman and Zhou Xun.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 365-393) and index.

Introduction / Sander L. Gilman and Zhou Xun -- Smoking in history and culture -- Ritual smoking in Central America / Francis Robicsek -- The pleasures and perils of smoking in early modern England / Tanya Pollard -- Smoking in sub-Saharan Africa / Allen F. Roberts -- Tobacco in Iran / Rudi Matthee -- Smoking and Ayurvedic medicine in India / P. Ram Manohar -- Tobacco culture in Japan / Barnabas Tatsuya Suzuki -- Smoking in imperial China / Timothy Brook -- Tobacco in Edo Period Japan / Timon Screech -- How do we smoke? : accessories and utensils / Ben Rapaport -- The belle epoque of opium / Jos Ten Berge -- The opium den in Victorian London / Barry Milligan -- Smoking and sociability / Matthew Hilton -- Havana cigars and the West's imagination / Jean Stubbs -- A century of Kretek / Mark Hanusz -- Ganja in Jamaica / J. Edward Chamberlin and Barry Chevannes -- Smoking and all that jazz / Stephen Cottrell -- Smoking in modern China / Zhou Xun -- Smoking in modern Japan / Daniel Gilman -- Cigarettes in Soviet and post-Soviet Central Asia / Ruth Mandel -- The cocaine experience / Alberto Castoldi -- Smoking & sociability -- Smoking in art and literature -- Symbol and image : smoking in art since the seventeenth century / Benno Tempel -- The houkah in the harem : on smoking and Orientalist art / Ivan Davidson Kalmar -- Smoking in opera / Linda Hutcheon and Michael Hutcheon -- In praise of lady nicotine : a bygone era of prose, poetry ... and presentation / Eugene Umberger -- Cinematic smoke : from Weimar to Hollywood / Noah Isenberg -- Emblems of emptiness : smoking as a way of life in Jean Eustache's La maman et la putain / Dawn Marlan -- Smoking & art -- Smoking, gender and ethnicity -- Jews and smoking / Sander L. Gilman -- The commodified African American in nineteenth-century tobacco art ; Women and nineteenth-century images of smoking / Dolores Mitchell -- Toward a queer history of smoking / Robyn L. Schiffman -- Gender & ethnicity -- Smoking : the 'burning issue' -- Why do we smoke? : The physiology of smoking / Leslie Iverson -- Smoking, science and medicine / John Welshman -- Engineering consumer confidence in the twentieth century / Allan M. Brandt -- Marlboro man and the stigma of smoking / Patrick W. Corrigan -- Smoking & advertising.