ELIZABETH RUTH - Smoke
Penguin Canada, August 2005

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Smoke, set in the fictional community of Smoke, a small town not to far from Windsor, Ontario,I had never before made an association between Canada and the growing of tobacco. I do not doubt that this is entirely due to my ignorance of rural Canada, which in itself is due to an urban upbringing.