| The Tobacco Reference Guide
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| by David Moyer, MD. |
| Chapter 24 Women and smoking |
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| Women and smoking: Historical |
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| American women began to smoke in great numbers shortly after the country became |
| independent. A 1799 pamphlet in Massachusetts blamed the rise in fires on "the |
| smoking of cigars by women in bed." |
| San Francisco Chronicle, January 19, 1997, p. 7 |
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| "Women - when they smoke at all - quickly develop discriminating taste...That is why |
| Marlboros now ride in so many limousines, attend so many bridge parties, repose in |
| so many hand bags." |
| 1927 ad for Marlboro, a new women's cigarette |
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| In 1929 a US senator declared: "Not since the days when the vendor of harmful |
| nostrums was swept from our streets, has this country witnessed such an orgy of |
| buncombe, quackery and downright falsehood and fraud as now marks the current |
| campaign promoted by certain cigarette manufacturers to create a vast woman and |
| child market." |
| Preventing Tobacco Use Among Young People, 1994 Surgeon General report, p. |
| 166 |
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| In the 1920's tobacco companies viewed the prospective female market as "opening |
| a new gold mine right in our front yard." The American Tobacco Company promoted |
| cigarettes as "symbols of freedom," and organized women in the 1929 New York |
| Easter parade to carry placards identifying their cigarettes as "torches of liberty." |
| 1994 Surgeon General report, p. 165 |
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