The Smoking Museum

THE SMOKING MUSEUM

• To demonstrate how global attitudes toward smoking have developed and transformed over the years.

• Impression: Smoking is an archaic practice, long-since vanished from mainstream society.

• No smoking is permitted.

Open: Tuesday – Sunday 2pm – 7pm

Cost: 5 euros 10 euros for group tour

Location• Located off of Rue Pache and

Rue de le Roquette

• Métro Voltaire (line 9), exit 1

• Bus 46, 56, 61, 69: station Voltaire - Place Léon Blum

• Between Bastille and Père Lachaise

History• After the passage of the Loi Évin, (alcohol policy law), in 1991, the French

government curbed tobacco advertising and began progressively restricting smoking in public spaces.

• 2001: the changing societal views of smoking behind these policy changes inspired Tigrane Hadengue and Mishka Seeliger.

Collections of…• European pipes• 17th-century clay pipes • Peace pipes• Hookahs• Chinese opium pipes• Egyptian shishas• Snuffboxes• Cigars• Tobacco samples• Hemp clothing• Etchings• Portraits• Photographs• Videos• Live plants and smoking-themed artwork

Famous Faces

Georges Sand• Publically smoked tobacco at a time when

such things were considered improper for “les honnêtes femmes.”

180 photos of famous figures smoking, among them, Brigitte Bardot, Madonna, Che Guevara, Paul McCartney, Bob Marley, Audrey Hepburn, and Marilyn Monroe

Vapormatic Deluxe

Allows one to inhale plant essences without creating secondhand smoke*299 euros

Bookstore

• Books on the cultivation of tobacco to proven methods to quit smoking, from essays, poetry, novels, and the most thought-provoking pieces of writing to cartoons

Gift Shop• Humidors for keeping cigars, pipes carved out of briar,

stone or clay, highly colored blown-glass by modern artists, water pipes, vaporizations, oriental hookahs, videos, DVDs, souvenirs etc.

• Smoking devices of a revolutionary shape, designed to trap tar or to reduce passive smoke

• Also available posters, postcards and T-shirts from Le Musée du Fumeur.

• Pamphlets and leaflets on quitting smoking available

Sources• “Maya.” Online image. 14 May 2012. <http://www.google.com/imgres?q=le+mus

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