ABSTRACT
In this chapter, the author turns attention to an analysis of how smokers themselves might contemplate and regard their own breaths, and to what ends their own smoky inhalations and exhalations might be put, these smoking breaths fourthhand smoke. This naming is meant to indicate that smoky breaths have potential beyond what is indicated for them in explications of firsthand, secondhand, and thirdhand smoke. The author continues to attend to the sensory to make author's claims—and it rely in what follows on touch and vision, that together elaborate the notion of outbound travel from the body site. Of course it is not the case that the public health state has a monopoly on explicating the air. The smoky air has also been pressed into service as the agent of tobacco companies to great effect in claims that are made about smoking pleasure and where smoky air can take the smoker.
