PT  - JOURNAL ARTICLE
AU  - Kirsten Levy
TI  - My mother, the smoker
AID  - 10.1136/jmh.2005.000242
DP  - 2007 Jun 01
TA  - Medical Humanities
PG  - 16--21
VI  - 33
IP  - 1
4099  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/33/1/16.short
4100  - http://mh.bmj.com/content/33/1/16.full
SO  - J Med Humanit2007 Jun 01; 33
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.