Edward
Bartender
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I remember reading that Bogart was spnosored by a cigarette brand to smoke only their product in all his films. I believe it was common back in the day. It seems it was really only into the seventies here in the UK when the link between cigarettes and cancer became common knowledge and started to affect people's habits. I would have expected that we'd have seen a level of smoking depcited in films that reflected real life, whether or not it was sponsored. In the UK during WW2, 50% of men smoked, and about 30% of women. As I recall, it rose for women over time, evne as it began to dwindle for men. The highest take-up group in the UK is still teenage girls - mainly for the reason Lizzies' vintage ad shows. In the eighties in the UK, about a third of adults smoked; it's now about 20%. Interestingly, though, I have in the last year or two seen more people by far with these vaping things than cigarettes, and precious few of these vapers are using a thing which in any way imitates the look of a cigarette. Not so much a way of people giving up as the way they are choosing to consume nicoteen changing. Wouldn't touch it myself (I stick to lighting the pipe maybe half a dozen times in the year), though if there was a nicoteeen-free version that simply gave you one of those sweetie flavours they come in, I'd be on that like a rat up a drainpipe as a way to keep off snackfoods....
Alcoholism?
Take away a man's cigar, and this is the result:
https://iconicphotos.wordpress.com/2009/07/31/winston-churchill-by-yousef-karsh/
Alcoholism?