CHAPTER 8 - END: STRESS RELIEVER
"He had stopped smoking ten years ago, but occasionally he would have a relapse." (155)
Over the course of the novel, Salander, Blomkvist, and a few other secondary characters indulge in cigarettes in several stressful situations. One example of this is when Salander is getting revenge on her guardian. She lights 3 cigarettes during that scene. Another example was when Blomkvist first met up with Salander after finding out that she hacked his computer to dig up info about him. Here is a tallied list of the amount of times characters in the book light up a cigarette.