Depictions of tobacco smoking in art date back at least to the pre-Columbian Maya Civilization, where smoking had religious significance. The motif occurred frequently in painting of the 17th-century dutch golden age, in which people of lower social class were often shown smoking pipes. In European art of the 18th and 19th centuries, the social location of people – largely men – shown as smoking tended to vary, but the stigma attached to women who adopted the habit was reflected in some artworks. Art of the 20th century often used the cigar as a status symbol, and parodied images from tobacco advertising. Developing health concerns around tobacco smoking also influenced its artistic representation. Recently tobacco has impacted on art in a quite different way, with the conversion of many cigaratte vandetting machines in Art-o-mat outlets, selling miniature artworks the shape and size of a cigaratte packet.
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