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,
He states that tobacco started in Europe due to Portuguese sailors, and from there it spread and soon became was in high demand. Chinese people thought that tobacco had medicinal purposes, while Native Americans thought that tobacco connected you to a supernatural world.
Like alcohol, smoking most effective drop fulfilling after one receives custom to it. “If coffee makes a person wakeful, mentally alert, and at worst, nervous, the effect of tobacco was described from the very first by reference to calm, placidity, contemplation, concentration, etc.” (p. 107). Schivelbusch also writes of the approaches in which smoking was associated to worker’s rights and democracy actions in Germany. The primary and most unsparing confederacy in Germany changed into seemingly fashioned by way of the cigar rollers. “Thus, it was a curious twist in its symbolic history that the cigar should later have come to be a status symbol for capitalist entrepreneurs” (p. 129).
There are millions of people who already do smoke, know somebody who does smoke, or lost somebody to a smoking related death; the picture greatly adheres to that crowd at showing the potential dangers if looked at from a perspective
My essay explains how this marvelous product originating from the Americas changed the age of discovery and how it became a very important trade product around the world. Early History of tobacco Tobacco was first discovered by the native peoples of America and South America then introduced to Europe and the rest of the world. Tobacco had already been used for a long time in South America even before the European settlers came into the Americas (Wikipedia). It was only when the Europeans brought tobacco back to Europe for trade it got popular.
In addition, King also talks about how beneficial smokers are. How the benefits they provide awaken “a tender concern” (316) from the government. Even with all
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In the book Merchants of Doubt by Naomi Oreskes and Erik M. Conway, they are discussing the climate change throughout history causing the global warnings and the issues of tobacco smoke. In this book they are trying to understand the reasoning for the changes. Mostly that the cause for the climate changes in the world is from a gas we are releasing into the atmosphere destroying the plant. The other is the Tabaco smoke getting the consumer to be addictive to the product causing the health problems they letter have in life. Merchants of Doubt put this is a new perspective that lets the reader understand what is happening in the world we live in and how the people in charge does not want the population to know.
The document analyzed is an article from people magazine published in mid-December 1978. Patricia Burstein wrote an article centered on Jackie Rogers, who assists people who intend to quit smoking cigarettes. In a slightly provocative title, Jackie expresses that she doesn’t mind if people smoke, but should they choose to quit; she can help. Jackie’s story was important because she marketed as a smoker who could relate to other smokers and hopefully connect with people who struggled in attempting to quit smoking. By this time in the 1970’s, smoking was known that it came with aversive side effects, but people were already hooked to the habit and found it very difficult to quit. Smoking became a public health dilemma as the addictive nature
Smoking is the act of breathing in the smoke produced by burning tobacco either in cigarettes, cigars or pipes. Smoking was introduced to the European culture by explorers such as Christopher Columbus, the practice soon spread across the globe. Smoking (2017) describes the use of tobacco products in the early 20th century as medicinal. Health practitioners believed smoking would aid in elevating the disposition, concentration and productivity of their patients. However, by the early 21st century the converse to this theory had been proven. Smoking had been identified as one of the leading causes of mortality and disease globally. Smoking is still widespread today, although there are many religious, social and medical discussions against it.
Smoking became a staple of Southern United States culture when it's environment proved perfect for growing and harvesting tobacco. With Kentucky and North Carolina “accounting for 71% of tobacco grown in the United States,” it is easy to see how the smoking culture is so deeply embedded and loved by southerners (“Economies”). Since the birth of this relationship in the late eighteenth century, a plethora of research has shown many negative side effects of smoking tobacco, such as: cancer, increased risk for respiratory disease and cardiovascular disease, and tooth decay (“Economies”). This, along with recent bans put in place by a growing number of cities that make it a crime to smoke in public places, has paved the way for a new
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Researching the issue of smoking and tobacco addiction in Russia has allowed me to learn more about the history and culture of the country, and increase my understanding about the effects of smoking in Russian-speaking communities. Although no one in my close family smokes, I was surrounded by smokers when growing up and the issue of smoking remained unaddressed until I moved to Australia, where there are many anti-smoking campaigns and education about the effect of drugs on the mind and body. After researching the topic, I realised that my knowledge and understanding about this issue had been very minor before conducting this investigation.
People that smoke are the people that get all the unhealthy stuff in a body like cancer and many diseases that can be caused.“If smoking persists at the current rate among young adults in this country, 5.6 million of today’s Americans younger than 18 years of age are projected to die prematurely from a smoking-related illness. Another 100,000 were babies who died of sudden infant death syndrome (often referred to as SIDS) or complications from prematurity, low birth weight, or other conditions caused by parental smoking, particularly smoking by the mother. “Smoking has been around for a long time. The problem with smoking became worse when “production climbed markedly when another cigarette-making machine was developed in the 1880s by James Albert Bonsack, which vastly increased the productivity of cigarette companies, which went from making about 40,000 hand-rolled cigarettes daily to around 4 million.” Smoking is a problem around the world because it causes lung cancer, many other cancers, and some horrible diseases. This problem should be solved because “More than 10 times as many U.S. citizens have died prematurely from cigarette smoking than have died in all the wars fought by the United States during its history.”
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