Instead of saying “a long time ago,” Korean folktales start with ‘when tigers used to smoke’. Although tigers have not been found to be smoking, humans are famous for wasting their lives by smoking tobacco leaf in its various forms. Smoking is the poison that many people take inside their bodies to escape the harsh
Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam
Mohammad Mahfuzul Islam is an anthropologist and a faculty member at Independent University Bangladesh, Dhaka, Bangladesh. He can be reached at mahfuziub@iub.edu.bd.
