title: My mother, the smoker.
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.
authors.forename: Kirsten
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Levy