To understand why most of the world’s population continues to smoke despite the medical evidence of its dangerous effects, one needs to understand the social history of smoking. One must also understand its role in daily cultural practice.
The historian Jordan Goodman has argued that the societies to which tobacco was introduced exhibit an ‘addiction culture,’ be it the rituals of Native American culture or coffeehouses in eighteenth-century Europe.
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