Been seeing a lot of these around New York lately: little cigarette disposal units for smokers. Curious how these serve not simply as disposal units but as indicators of where smokers should and should not congregate. In that sense, they double as tethers to movement. I'm also remembering the indoor smokers' rooms in restaurants and night clubs, like little glass prisons filled with smoke.
See Smoking norms in the San Fernando Valley. Gets me thinking about calorie counts on food menus, signs that encourage walking vs. taking the elevator, and the various ways we stigmatize life practices considered not simply unhealthy (high heels, for instance, are pretty unhealthy) but unattractive.
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