Product Description
Can you imagine Groucho Marx lacking a cigar? Do you remember that a few years ago smoking was allowable in airplanes? Can you tell when New York stopped smoking?
In the not so unsociable past, posing seductively with a cigarette was de rigueur for Hollywood types. How many celebrities today dare to even call one? No Smoking is a tribute to the 20th century, a century that made, promoted and glorified the cigarette and then suddenly confirmed war on it.
5 Comments
First off, I am not a smoker. I have smoked cigarettes previous to, and delight in the rare cigar, but don’t consider myself a smoker. But I was intrigued when I saw this book in Barnes and upper-class this afternoon (I thought the box was very clever) and finished up sitting down and conception sweet greatly the entire book.
You don’t have to be a smoker to appreciate the effort place into this collection of art, including ancient advertisements, photos, paintings, and quotes from an array of influential people from the past two centuries. This is not a glorification of smoking; neither is it an indictment. Rather, it questions the reader to not remember for awhile their beliefs in this area smoking and realize what a large part smoking played in American culture as water supply as European culture.
Yes, smoking can kill you. But to immeadiatly dismiss this book as a nostalgic collection for the fiendish smoker is juvenile, and frankly, disrespectful; like it or not, tobacco has played an enormous part in this country’s history. This book does a very excellent job of taking the reader beyond their beliefs to see a total world of art, life, and culture that revolved around smoking.
Rating: 5 / 5
The cinema are terrific, and they demonstrate irrefutably that our cultural identity was established by people who smoked like it was their last day alive. What was/is smoking considered cool by some people? Who knows. But all P.C. nonsense aside, this is a fascinating book.
Rating: 5 / 5
I like the box it comes in!! So greatly fun. This is a splendid table book, it seems to call everyone’s attention. Metaphors are incredible and very crisp. But then over again, of way, its TASCHEN.
Rating: 4 / 5
I am not smoker. I like the way that smoke in the air…
It is a excellent way to memory the smoke!
Rating: 4 / 5
Have you even bothered to READ the book, Betty??? The only drivel here is the “nanny-state” prohibitionism you’re shoveling. In fact, he’s not even an addict–HE QUIT YEARS AGO. I infer you and your ilk just can’t allocate things like the truth to get in the way of your opinions. How typical.
Rating: 5 / 5