There is a lot of social baggage around tobacco smoking that has faded from living memory. I read about the [Torches of Freedom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/T

There is a lot of social baggage around tobacco smoking that has faded from living memory. I read about the [Torches of Freedom](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom) advertising campaign and am amazed. Those young women, puffing their liberation in the 1930s, would turn into the old smokers of the 1970s. I guess that they would disbelieve that smoking caused lung cancer out of loyalty to the version of feminism that was current in their youth. If so, then the reluctance to accept the authority of science about tobacco is an idiosyncratic tale, specific to a powerful, pre-existing social meaning.