ABSTRACT
Expelled tobacco smoke has led us to create smoking zones that appear on our maps as interstitial spaces like the middle of the road. The spatial dimensions are easy enough to see, and even permit insight into how anthropologists have attended to public health interests in space since the colonial era. This chapter argues that smoke, usually thought of as being dangerous because of its indiscriminate movement into any unwilling lungs that cross its path, can, in and through its capacity to infiltrate matter, become sited. Thirdhand smoke describes the particles and gases that remain present on surfaces after a cigarette has been extinguished. It follows 'second' hand smoke, that smoke that permeates an environment and bodies that circulate therein, and 'first' hand smoke, that is actively and intentionally drawn in by the smoker.
