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Claims made about the effectiveness of new Australian plain cigarette packaging legislation reveal key assumptions about the smoker: her/his rationality can be reached by increasingly hardhitting and/or targeted intervention. Abandoning the restrictive frame of the rational smoker returns to an anthropology concerned with understanding how, rather than why, smoking figures in the lives of those who smoke.

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