The author concentrates on some cultural strategies which have made an Other from people who smoke cigarettes. The article is based on the concept of the Other presented by Zygmunt Bauman. The author analyzes three basic strategies: strategy of cultural body, strategy of heterotopia and strategy of odour which dominate in the manner in which smokers are separated. Through body, place and smell modern culture defines smokers as an Other which differs from the socially accepted norms and is continually and increasingly excluded from mainstream society.
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