HLTHAGE 2L03 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Tobacco Control, Columbian Exchange, Societal Collapse
31 Jan 2020
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Sense of something difficult to resist in tobacco, idea of masculinity, one did it in moderation demonstrating your degree of self control "performance of masculine rationality" Increases until 70s and 80s, daily consumption of cigarettes, everyone did it, mainstream: 2010 number dropped and keeps declining. Impact of smoking on pregnancy, women"s social value linked to ability to reproduce. "freedom torches" statue of liberty, new york parade told to hold cigarettes. If you smoked it was a way of saying i"m equal to men and aspire social world to be different. Slimness into cigarette u smoke, females smoke slims, tied to body slimness. In the modern world we construct our identities and come to understand ourselves do it through things we use. Increasingly using commodities to make statements about who we are as a person: the way we communicate identity increasingly visual, not just cigarettes themselves, the package, lighters, cigarette holders.
