Vintage Winston Cigarette Ad
Fashion and cigarettes go way back.  Perhaps as an act of defiance or as a sophisticated style statement?  Unless you’re wearing a smoking jacket or cigarette pants, smoking is not a chic fashion accessory.

Vintage Cigarette Ad featuring Black Model

 

In 1908, New York City passed a municipal law banning women from smoking in public places. Only ladies with loose morals lit up. The mayor vetoed the ordinance two weeks later.
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