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 /Yanya 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.