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THE SMOKING MUSEUM. The Smoking Museum. To d emonstrate how global attitudes toward smoking have developed and transformed over the years. Impression: S moking is an archaic practice, long-since vanished from mainstream society. No smoking is permitted. Open : Tuesday – Sunday 2pm – 7pm
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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 MishkaSeeliger.
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 availableposters, postcards and T-shirts from Le Musée du Fumeur. • Pamphlets and leaflets on quitting smoking available
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