While The Indian Express could not independently verify the provenance or authenticity of the photographs, their virality and the reactions they ignited reveal a decades-old feminist paradox: a deadly habit long stigmatised for women, re-emerging as a tool of defiance, a century after American advertisers first sold the cigarette as a torch of freedom. From public menace to marketed freedom Long before cigarettes meant freedom, women who smoked were treated as a public order problem
23, 24 This finding is stronger among African American and other minority populations than among white smokers, 25-27 despite African American menthol users expressing greater confidence in their ability to quit than non-menthol users
Photographer: Ingram Publishing
Translated with www.DeepL.com/Translator (free version)
Our new Face Book page gives us the opportunity to report on events, share photos, and connect with the public in a timely, friendly, and social manner