By 1968, Virginia Slims was launched with the iconic tagline: Youve come a long way, baby. Gradually, young women, Emilee Gilbert, Associate Professor and Associate Dean Research in the School of Psychology, Western Sydney University, writes in Performing Femininity: Young Womens Gendered Practice of Cigarette Smoking ( Journal of Gender Studies , 2007), learned to perform femininity through the act of smoking: how the cigarette was held, how the wrist was twisted, smoking a cigarette in hand, how ash was tapped, and how smoke was exhaled
Seattle biotech Achieve Life Sciences on Tuesday announced an experimental drug meant to help people quit smoking did exactly that in a clinical trial, paving the way for the company to seek approval for a product that would face stiff competition
Marijuana use is becoming more common, raising health concerns, including lung health
Philip Morris attempted to keep me from going national with my anti-smoking message because they knew they had a lot to lose if I broke this perception
