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50 Popular Culture Review Cigarette smoke can also point to the possibilities of links between personal bodies. Individually exhaled plumes of smoke may meet and touch and mingle in the air: something that was expressly forbidden between male and female smokers in the small town in Indonesia where I used to live, lest the meeting and intertwining of air that had been inside a gendered body should encourage more interactions involving V