《吞云吐雾》内容简介

　　无论是想戒烟的人，还是想吸烟或正在吸烟的人，都该看看！

　　人们究竟为何吸烟？本书打破医学领域将吸烟原因归于尼古丁成瘾的单一结论，以独特视角重新探讨了这一问题，引导读者拓宽视野，去思考更广泛的长期社会进程如何对西方的烟草观和烟草使用产生影响。

　　书中从16世纪烟草由美洲大陆传入欧洲写起，追踪了烟草使用观念的历史演变：起初，烟草被美洲原住民用作萨满仪式中的致幻剂；欧洲早期将烟草视为“万灵药”，作为治疗疾病和预防瘟疫的药物；如今，烟草的使用则被界定为一种蔓延全球的成瘾性疾病。在这个过程中，发生了很多有趣的变化：烟草类型越来越趋于温和化；烟草的功效从使人失控逐渐转变为自我控制，且越来越多样化和个性化；服务于社交目的的礼俗式吸烟社会渐渐转向退居私人场合的法理式吸烟社会。而考察这些变化，就会发现它们与文明化进程、医学范式的改变、大众消费时代的兴起之间有着更为广阔的关联。

　　书中还通过社会调查的方式，细致探究了个人层面的烟草使用与吸烟体验，及其与个人身份、人生转变的关系，呈现出在吸烟效果、吸烟理由上的多样性，并有力证明了烟草使用体验是社会心理过程与生物药理过程动态相互作用的结果，吸烟行为不能只用被动的成瘾模型来理解，吸烟者自己也在其中扮演着重要的、主动的角色。这为政策干预和个人戒烟提供了新的思路。

　　作者简介

　　贾森·休斯（JasonHughes），英国莱斯特大学（UniversityofLeicester）社会学教授，主要研究领域为社会理论、药物与健康，以及情感、工作与身份等。英国社会科学院（AcademyofSocialSciences）院士，欧洲科学院（AcademiaEuropaea）成员。著有《吞云吐雾：西方烟草使用史》（LearningtoSmoke:TobaccoUseintheWest），该书获得2005年度诺贝特·埃利亚斯图书奖（NorbertEliasBookPrize）；《性别、阶级与职业：工人阶级男性做脏活》（Gender,ClassandOccupation:WorkingClassMenDoingDirtyWork，与他人合著）；《埃利亚斯与现代社会学：知识、相互依赖、权力及过程》（NorbertEliasandModernSociology:Knowledge,Interdependence,Power,Process，与他人合著）。

　　

"Puff the clouds" content introduction

Whether it is someone who wants to quit smoking, or someone who wants to smoke or is smoking, it should be read!

Why do people smoke? Breaking with the medical field's singular conclusion that smoking is the cause of nicotine addiction, this book reexamines the issue from a unique perspective, leading readers to broaden their thinking about how broader, long-term social processes have influenced Western views of tobacco and tobacco use.

Written from the introduction of tobacco to Europe from the American continent in the 16th century, the book traces the historical evolution of ideas about tobacco use: first, tobacco was used by Native Americans as a hallucinogenic agent in shamanic rituals; In the early days of Europe, tobacco was regarded as a "panacea", as a medicine to cure disease and prevent plague; Today, tobacco use is defined as an addictive disease that is spreading around the world. In the process, a number of interesting changes have taken place: tobacco types are becoming milder; The effect of tobacco gradually changed from making people out of control to self-control, and more and more diversified and personalized; The ritual smoking society, which serves social purposes, has gradually shifted to the legal smoking society, which has retreated to private places. Examining these changes, however, reveals a broader relationship between the process of civilization, the changing paradigm of medicine, and the rise of the age of mass consumption.

Through social investigation, the book also explores tobacco use and smoking experience at the individual level, as well as their relationship with personal identity and life transformation, showing the diversity of smoking effects and reasons for smoking, and strongly proving that tobacco use experience is the result of dynamic interaction between social psychological process and biological pharmacological process. Smoking behavior cannot be understood only in a passive addiction model; smokers themselves play an important, active role in it. This provides new ideas for policy intervention and individual smoking cessation.

About the author

JasonHughes is a professor of sociology at the UniversityofLeicester, UK, whose research interests include social theory, medicine and health, as well as emotions, work and identity. He is a fellow of the British AcademyofSocialSciences and a member of the European Academyof Sciences. The author of "smoking: western history of tobacco use" (LearningtoSmoke: TobaccoUseintheWest), the book won the 2005 Nobel, elias book award (NorbertEliasBookPrize); "Gender, class, and occupation: working-class men do dirty work" (Gender, ClassandOccupation: WorkingClassMenDoingDirtyWork, co-authored with others); Elias and modern sociology: Knowledge, depend on each other, Power and Process "(NorbertEliasandModernSociology: Knowledge, Interdependence, Power, Process, and co-author).