My mother, the smoker
- Correspondence to: K Levy Cardiovascular Proteomics Center, Boston University School of Medicine, 670 Albany St, Suite 504, Boston, MA 02118-2518, USA;klevy{at}bu.edu
- Accepted 3 November 2006
Abstract
Watching a frail parent, with a pack-a-day smoking habit, decline into dementia, I wrote a blog and morphed it into a narrative of my mother’s smoking, paralleling her habit with the rise and fall of smoking through the ages. I imagine that some readers might be grappling with similar anguish and I offer this part memoir, part history, part health ethics discussion to understand what is so compelling about her experience with tobacco.
Footnotes
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Funding: KL receives salary from a US National Institutes of Health-funded contract to Boston University.
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Competing interests: None.
