Chicago: University of Chicago Press, (1999). A book which attempts to answer two questions: "how does it feel to smoke, and what does smoking mean? It begins with Stern's account of growing up on a tobacco farm in colonial Rhodesia, but goes on to "weave the intimate act of a solitary person smoking a cigarette into a broad cultural picture of desire, exchange, fulfillment, and the acts that bind people together, either in lasting ways or through ephemeral encounters." Notes, glossary. 237 pp.