Smoking and blogging

Artwork by Amir Rad, via Parastoo

I was on Radio Open Source last night with four other wonderful women who have done work on Iran. Chris Lydon asked about how blogs in Iran are political. This is usually asked and I guess it's a central question to understand Iran. But now I have a better answer:

When smoking for women is political in Iran, how could blogging and making your private life public not be?