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On Page 123 Brook Case Study

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1. On page 123 Brook argues that "to see the bigger picture, we have to look at the globe." What is the "bigger picture" behind smoking? What do we learn?

The “bigger picture” of smoking that Brook is trying to point out is global mobility, more specifically, how global mobility lead to transculturation. Transculturation defined as the change in a culture brought about by the merging of different elements from other cultures. Brook explains how the Europeans and Chinese “came into terms with tobacco foreign origin”. Both cultures tried to find a way to legitimize the practice of smoking into their culture, such as stating that smoking tobacco had medicinal purposes.
2. Why study smoking, and not just tobacco?

Brook focuses on smoking,

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