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Journal articles on the topic "Smoking, fiction"
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Grylls, D. "Smoke Signals: The Sexual Semiotics of Smoking in Victorian Fiction." English 55, no. 211 (March 1, 2006): 15–35. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/english/55.211.15.
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McMahon, Keith. "Opium and Sexuality in late Qing Fiction." NAN NÜ 2, no. 1 (2000): 129–79. http://dx.doi.org/10.1163/156852600750072321.
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AbstractThis article examines opium smoking in two gendered contexts of the late Qing, as an activity among socializing men and in situations between men and women. The method is to use fiction to ask how male and female smokers differed and in general to show how opium came to symbolize an uncanny and ominous disruption of the social fabric. In terms of gender, the obscene enjoyment of the female smoker was exponentially more threatening in the prohibitionist's eyes than that of the male. As the sign of an unprecedented type of pleasure, opium addiction threatened to denaturalize the boundaries of cultural as well as gender identity.
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Willging, Jennifer. "Leisure and alienation in Houellebecq’s fiction." French Cultural Studies 32, no. 4 (June 7, 2021): 428–43. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/09571558211012966.
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This article examines representations of leisure in Michel Houellebecq’s fiction. Theorised as a new human need that arose from the alienating nature of work in industrial society, leisure is one of three sectors of everyday life explored by modern sociologists. Marxist philosopher and sociologist Henri Lefebvre saw in leisure a domain in which human beings could experience moments of freedom and fulfilment, but which was becoming increasingly controlled and commercialised and therefore as potentially alienating as work. This article argues that Houellebecq’s fiction portrays contemporary leisure activities, such as shopping, tourism, physical exercise, smoking, and television-watching, as manifestations of this latter kind of leisure, which has proliferated under neoliberalism. His protagonists attempt, if often half-heartedly, to compensate for neoliberalism’s erosion of family and work as stabilising forces to find identity and fulfilment in leisure. If their efforts inevitably fail, Houellebecq’s attention to everyday leisure at least confirms Lefebvre’s contention that a critical evaluation of leisure was increasingly urgent.
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Hingtgen, Marla, Myra Pacelli, and Hugh Miller. "130 Smoking status in pregnant women: Is self-report fact or fiction?" American Journal of Obstetrics and Gynecology 185, no. 6 (December 2001): S117. http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/s0002-9378(01)80165-4.
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Salawati, Trixie, and Nuke Devi Indrawati. "Analisis Kebutuhan untuk Merancang ASETARO Komik Anak tentang Bahaya Rokok." Jurnal Kesehatan Masyarakat 11, no. 2 (February 25, 2016): 249. http://dx.doi.org/10.15294/kemas.v11i2.3880.
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<p>Dalam upaya melindungi generasi muda dari bahaya asap rokok, maka penelitian ini bertujuan untuk menganalisis kebutuhan siswa Sekolah Dasar dalam rangka mengembangkan ASETARO, sebuah komik pendidikan kesehatan tentang bahaya rokok. Metode penelitian ini adalah kualitatif. Data diperoleh melalui Diskusi Kelompok Tearah dan wawancara dengan wakil siswa sekolah dasar dan pustakawan sekolah, serta <em>literature review.</em> Hasil penelitian menunjukkan bahwa model komik yang disukai siswa adalah <em>science fiction</em> yang memberikan pengetahuan sekaligus membangkitkan imajinasi seperti pada <em>science comic</em> WHY! Pada umumnya siswa menyukai gaya cerita, gambar, dan warna dari komik tersebut. Selanjutnya para siswa masih membutuhkan informasi tentang kandungan racun dalam rokok, mengapa rokok bisa menyebabkan kecanduan dan penyakit, serta dampak rokok terhadap perokok aktif dan pasif. Selain itu ditemukan pula masih adanya anggapan bahwa perilaku merokok adalah perilaku orang dewasa, dan anak-anak tidak diperbolehkan merokok karena badannya masih lemah. Simpulan penelitian adalah komik pendidikan kesehatan mengenai bahaya rokok akan menggunakan pendekatan <em>science fiction</em>.</p><p><strong> </strong></p><p>Smoking is harmful especially for children. Children must be protected from the effect of tobacco use. Comic story book is one of the children’s favorite media. Comic can serve health educational purpose. The purpose of this study was to develop ASETARO, a Comic Story Book for primary school aged children, to help children learn about the effect of tobacco use for health. This research was a descriptive study with qualitative approach. Data collected through Focus Group Discussion with students from five Primary Schools at Semarang, interviews with the librarian form each school, and literarture review. Results of analysis studies showed that most students liked science fiction comics. The majority of the students likes Science Comic WHY? Analysis study also revealed that the students still need information about the harm of cigarettes, why smoking can cause addiction and disease, as well as the impact of smoking on active and passive smokers. Analysis study also found that some students still believe that smoking is an adults's behavior. Children are not allowed to smoke because the body is still weak. Based on the results of analysis studies was then to design and develop a draft of comic story book.</p>
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Raskin, Jonah. "The Master of Nasty." Boom 2, no. 4 (2012): 87–95. http://dx.doi.org/10.1525/boom.2012.2.4.87.
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Raymond Chandler relished finding names for his quirky characters, including Philip Marlowe, the pipe-smoking, chess-playing private eye—a literary kinsman to Sam Spade, Dashiell Hammett’s solitary sleuth—whom I first met in the pages of fiction as a teenager and whom I have known more than fifty years. Sometimes the names are dead giveaways about the morality or immorality of the character, sometimes they’re opaque, but I’ve always found them intriguing and an open invitation to try to solve the mystery myself.
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Bezhenar, V. F., L. A. Ivanova, N. A. Tatarova, and M. Yu Korshunov. "Risk factors for perinatal loss - reality or fiction?" Obstetrics, Gynecology and Reproduction 15, no. 4 (September 9, 2021): 360–70. http://dx.doi.org/10.17749/2313-7347/ob.gyn.rep.2021.185.
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Aim: to identify factors predisposing to perinatal losses, assessment of which is available at the first (only) visit of pregnant woman in antenatal clinic.Materials and Methods. A retrospective analysis of the medical records of 964 women who performed delivery in 2009-2019 in 15 obstetric facilities was carried out. The patients were divided into 2 groups: the main group included 457 women with perinatal losses (stillbirth - 328 children, and 129 children with early neonatal death); the control group consisted of 507 women, whose children survived 7 days during postnatal period. We analyzed parameters routinely determined by an obstetrician-gynecologist at the first visit of woman during within ongoing pregnancy (regardless of gestation age), namely, social status, anamnesis, data of initial examination.Results. The following significant differences were revealed in pregnant women from the main group: a younger age of pregnancy; no registered marriage and permanent job as well as primary and secondary education; smoking, alcohol and drug use; concurrent diabetes mellitus, hypertensive disorders, blood contact infections, obesity; older menarche age and younger sexual debut age; medical history contains infectious genital pathology, more often pregnancies and childbirths, two or more abortions before repeated childbirth, premature births.Conclusion. Thus, the anamnestic indicators noted above can be used to create prognostic statistical systems and models to determine high risk of perinatal losses of any nature.
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Hamm, Rebecca, Tim R. Terry, and Anthony S. Bates. "Penile rehabilitation after nerve-sparing prostatectomy: Fact or fiction?" Journal of Clinical Urology 10, no. 4 (March 22, 2017): 400–405. http://dx.doi.org/10.1177/2051415817701567.
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A 65-year-old man is seen in the clinic two months after a robot-assisted bilateral nerve-sparing radical prostatectomy. He is completely continent and has been since the catheter was removed. The main reason for his referral is erectile dysfunction. Pre-operatively his SHIM score was 25 (maximum score 25). He currently experiences some thickening with stimulation, and an erection hardness score of 2. He has a pleasurable sensation of orgasm during which he remains dry. His sex drive remains normal. He has a long-standing history of hypertension and raised LDL cholesterol, managed with amlodipine and simvastatin respectively. He has no other overt cardiovascular or ischaemic heart disease, and he is not a diabetic, but has an elevated fasting glucose of 6.0 mmol per litre. He stopped smoking five years ago, is 5 feet 11 inches tall, a weight of 95 kg, has a waist measurement of 44 inches (BMI 29 – upper end of overweight) (range <18.50 underweight; 18.50–24.99 healthy weight; 25.00–29.99 overweight; >30.00 obese). He performs no regular exercise. His wife is 60. He is keen to try to regain his erectile function.
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Kitson, Peter J. "Opium and Addiction in a Cross-Cultural Context: De Quincey's ‘Confessions’ (1821) and the Chinese Novel, Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou (Fengyue meng) (c. 1848)." Romanticism 27, no. 3 (October 2021): 309–21. http://dx.doi.org/10.3366/rom.2021.0524.
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This essay examines De Quincey's representation of opium ‘addiction’ in the cross-cultural context of Britain and China in the light of recent revisionist medical discussions of addiction and dependence, and revisionist historical writing about opium use in nineteenth-century China. De Quincey's representation of the opium user is compared to that of China's first ‘city novel’, Courtesans and Opium: Romantic Illusions of the Fool of Yangzhou believed to have been written in 1848 (trans 2009). In this complex fiction, opium smoking is presented as a largely pleasurable and common pastime which has the potential for danger if abused by the unwary. It is not connected with dreams and nightmares, or figured as a stimulus of, or analogy for, the creative imagination. It offers a fascinating view of the leisure world of nineteenth-century China, where recreational opium smoking is common and not problematic when undertaken moderately.
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Andzel-O'Shanahan, Edyta. "(Post)modern Tezcatlipoca – Reinterpretation of the Figure of the Smoking Mirror in Contemporary Mexican fiction." Mitologías hoy 15 (June 30, 2017): 387. http://dx.doi.org/10.5565/rev/mitologias.328.
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Gratzer, Walter. "Smoking for the Führer." In Eurekas and euphorias, 124–25. Oxford University PressNew York, NY, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780192804037.003.0078.
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Abstract Fritz Houtermans’s career was the stuff of fiction. He was German by birth but grew up and studied in Vienna. He was a physicist with, according to his friend Otto Frisch [20], a profound understanding of quantum theory. He pursued his theoretical work in Viennese cafes, where his prodigious capacity for coffee became legendary. His growing reputation took him to Germany, to one of the great centres of theoretical physics in Gottingen. Houtermans was one-quarter Jewish, so that, although he was proud of his ancestry’—’when your ancestors were still living in the trees’, he would tell his Aryan colleagues, ‘mine were already forging cheques’—he was not under threat of racial persecution by the Nazis. He was, however, a committed Communist and for many years a party member, and this would have put his life in danger. He therefore decamped to England, where he worked at the EMI laboratories, and all but discovered the laser (the means, first achieved in 1960, of generating light of a single wavelength with a very high intensity). But life in England was not to his taste and he complained especially’ about the smell of boiled mutton. He moved again, this time to fulfil his old ambition of working in the Soviet Union. He found employment in the Physico-Technical Institute in Kharkov, which then housed a brilliant cluster of physicists, among them the great Lev Landau 1137].
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Lehman, David. "The Last Cigarette." In The Mysterious Romance of Murder, 103–12. Cornell University Press, 2022. http://dx.doi.org/10.7591/cornell/9781501763625.003.0007.
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This chapter discusses the cigarette motif and its lingering presence in noir cinema. It considers the many uses of a cigarette in the language of film and fiction. As a prop, the cigarette can convey many things: seduction, fellowship, fear, desperation, loneliness, and even intimacy. The act of cigarette smoking itself can also be used to enhance dialogue. One can take a drag, puff out smoke, or gesture with a cigarette in hand to emphasize an argument. In film, the image of a cigarette's smoke and flame can also be used to convey a particular mood or atmosphere in a scene. The addictive nature of cigarettes also presents a certain allure. Indeed, as the chapter shows, cigarette use in noir films reflects the item's popularity during the 1940s, when many classic noir films were produced.
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Goldstein, Inge F., and Martin Goldstein. "Radon In Your Basement." In How Much Risk? Oxford University Press, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/oso/9780195139945.003.0008.
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We once saw a science fiction movie in which a monster from outer space is first detected because it sets Geiger counters clicking furiously. We were reminded of that movie by the story of how radon in homes first came to wide public attention. A nuclear power plant was built in a town in Pennsylvania, and like all such plants was equipped with radiation detectors, both to protect the health of employees and to prevent anyone from removing nuclear fuel from the plant. A newly employed engineer at the plant registered a high radioactivity when he walked by the detectors. This was not only alarming but surprising: the plant was not yet operating, and there should not have been any radioactive material around. It was quickly established that the source of the radiation was not the plant but the engineer’s house in a nearby suburban community, which had levels of radioactivity almost a thousand times greater than federal standards permit in mines. The radioactivity came from radon gas seeping into the house from the ground. Cigarette smoking is responsible for about 90% of lung cancers, but 10% of the victims of this disease had never smoked. It was already known that miners exposed to radon gas in uranium mines suffered a high rate of lung cancer, and the question immediately arose: could radon gas in homes be another cause of lung cancer? Radon in homes is not a consequence of the atomic bomb or the building of nuclear power plants; it is one of the major sources of the natural background radiation we are all exposed to. It is present even in outdoor air, and at higher concentrations in homes, castles, peasants’ hovels, and caves as long as people have lived in them. It is a product of the decay of the element uranium. Uranium is present to some extent in all minerals, so we expect to find more radon in houses built of stone or mineral products like stone, concrete, and gypsum than in houses built of wood, and we expect to find more of it in basements than in attics.
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Zieger, Susan. "Tobacco Papers, Holmes’s Pipe, Cigarette Cards, and Information Addiction." In The Mediated Mind, 54–86. Fordham University Press, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.5422/fordham/9780823279821.003.0003.
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Chapter two investigates an overlooked archive of tobacco ephemera, the smoke-room booklets, cigarette cards, and periodicals meant to be consumed by men while smoking. Tobacco-related poems, pictures, and print forms produced a self-referential discourse that compared smoking to consuming print, through puns on “leaves,” “volumes,” and “puffs” of speech preserved in paper. Through the medium of smoke, mass print self-consciously began to mediate fantasy, mental relaxation, and reverie. The most famous nineteenth-century literary smoker, Arthur Conan Doyle’s fictional detective Sherlock Holmes, figures this addictive dependency on print in his iconic pipe. His media “addiction” – really a reliance on obscure information – reflects readers’ desire for encyclopedic knowledge. Such desires for cultural mastery drove the popularity of cigarette cards, which featured trivia, and became a staple of working- and middle-class life from their invention in the 1890s. Reframing Holmes as the first “information addict,” the chapter tells the back story of our current intensified appetite for information in a knowledge economy governed by mass media.