DOMESTICATING THE CIGARETTE
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BLURRING THE LINE BETWEEN FOOD AND TOBACCO
Sugar, enhanced through flue-curing and added via sweeteners, is what allows relatively easy inhalation of cigarette smoke, and deep inhalation into the lungs is what makes nicotine administration via cigarette-smoking so much more addictive than any other route of administration. So the cigarette is, at its very core, a "candied-up contraption," as Robert Proctor puts it in his recent book, Golden Holocaust. Food mix-ins are routinely used to seduce children into tobacco use - for example, via low-priced starter products laced with food or food-like ingredients intended to make them mild and sweet, via hookah bars and shisha cafes peddling intensely food-flavored tobacco to college students, and most recently via flavored e-cigarettes. Quirkier examples include those chichi New York restaurants that, with the introduction and enforcement of clean indoor air policies, experimented - mercifully briefly - with tobacco as a dessert ingredient, to satisfy their smoking customers' desire to end the meal with a dose of nicotine; and of course the "Nicotini." ​​

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Yes, you can still buy candy cigarettes.
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An ashtray - or a frying pan?

  • Home
  • MAKING SMOKING LADYLIKE
  • EXHIBIT HALLS
    • WING 1: CIGARETTES AND FOOD >
      • The Cigarette as Part of a Meal
      • Blurring the Line between Food and Tobacco
    • WING 2: CIGARETTES AND BEAUTY >
      • The Cigarette as a Dieting Tool
      • Personal Care and Grooming
    • WING 3: CIGARETTES AS SOCIAL GLUE >
      • Card Games and Coffee Klatches
      • Love, Sex, and Cigarettes
    • WING 4: AT HOME AND ABROAD >
      • Home Decor
      • Out and About
  • GUIDED TOURS
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