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...smoked. In 1918 Evangelist Billy Sunday cried triumphantly: "Prohibition is won; now for tobacco!" In earlier days, the feeling against smoking by women was so strong that when Carmen came to Kansas before World War I, it was presented against a backdrop showing a dairy instead of a cigarette factory???and Carmen herself walked onstage carrying a milk pail. Not until after Bryn Mawr lifted its smoking ban in 1925 and Chesterfield began luring women smokers (with ads showing a gentleman lighting up, and a woman coaxing, "Blow some my way") did many women dare to smoke even in their...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: TOBACCO: The Controversial Princess | 4/11/1960 | See Source »

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