RT Journal Article
SR Electronic
T1 My mother, the smoker
JF Medical Humanities
JO J Med Humanit
FD BMJ Publishing Group Ltd and Institute of Medical Ethics
SP 16
OP 21
DO 10.1136/jmh.2005.000242
VO 33
IS 1
A1 Kirsten Levy
YR 2007
UL http://mh.bmj.com/content/33/1/16.abstract
AB 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.