take down tobacco day activities March 31 - Resources | Take Down Tobacco

Cut down on your intake of high-sodium, high-sugar, and high-fat foods

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Until the first half of the 20th century smoking was a habit only for men, but after the First World War the taboo was broken and it became a normality for women to smoke

Promoting cigarettes was big business for Madison Avenue and they responded with TV commercials that had clever slogans, catchy tunes and delightful scenes, all of which promoted the idea that smoking was fun, glamorous, manly (the rugged Marlboro Man* rounding up cattle on horseback to the urgent strains of the theme song from the movie, The Magnificent Seven ) or, in the case of Virginia Slims cigarettes, womanly and independent