TY - JOUR T1 - My mother, the smoker JF - Medical Humanities JO - J Med Humanit SP - 16 LP - 21 DO - 10.1136/jmh.2005.000242 VL - 33 IS - 1 AU - Kirsten Levy Y1 - 2007/06/01 UR - http://mh.bmj.com/content/33/1/16.abstract N2 - 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. ER -