ABSTRACT
This chapter shifts away from an examination of how firsthand smoke is explicated by the state in favour of an analysis of its explication of secondhand smoke. 'Cigarette smoking produces three different types of tobacco smoke,' explains Tobacco In Australia: The first is mainstream smoke, the smoke directly inhaled into the smoker's lungs through the burning cigarette. The second is exhaled mainstream smoke the smoke breathed out by the smoker from their lungs. The third is sidestream smoke, the smoke that drifts from the smoldering tip of the cigarette. 'Secondhand smoke', is explicated not so much in terms of the toxicity of smokers' exhalations as it is in the feelingful terms of disgust. Disgust arises over the idea of inhaling air that has just been circulating around the rotting lungs of a smoker. On television, in anti-smoking ads, this smoke is rendered highly visible, but in face-to-face encounters between smokers and bystanders, smoke is more often detected olfactorily.
