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A Pictoral Essay By The Great Art Critic, Novelist And Long-time Smoker, John Berger, And Turkish Writer And Illustrator Selçuk Demirel. Once Upon A Time, Men, Women And (secretly) Children Smoked. This Charming Illustrated Work Reflects On The Cultural Implications Of Smoking, And Suggests, Through A Series Of Brilliantly Inventive Illustrations, That Society's Attitude To Smoke Is Both Paradoxical And Intolerant. It Portrays A World In Which Smokers, Banished From Public Places, Must Encounter One Another As Outlaws. Meanwhile, Car Exhausts And Factory Chimneys Continue To Pollute The Atmosphere. Smoke Is A Beautifully Illustrated Prose Poem That Lingers In The Mind. A Cigarette Is A Breathing Space. It Makes A Parenthesis. The Time Of A Cigarette Is A Parenthesis, And If It Is Shared You Are Both In That Parenthesis. It's Like A Proscenium Arch For A Dialogue. - John Berger (in Interview)
