Your Doctor Wants You to Smoke

vintage smoking posters

A Woman's Right to Inhale
Early on, says Jackler, cigarette makers tied their product to women's rights. In 1927, one p.r. genius hired debs to participate in women's rights marches armed with cigarettes as their "torches of freedom." Here we have a woman who has risen to the top in a man's profession in 1946. Was it because she smoked? Well, you can't disprove it.

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