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Catherine Dubuque's avatar

I was at a communications firm when I had to write a piece for a e-cigarette company. Am opposed to any kind of inhalation product, so what's a girl to do? I wrote a rich column on the days of advertising restrictions in Hollywood's golden age of movies, drawing heavily from Humphrey Bogart and Lauren Bacall, illustrating how sex was depicted by smoking (bypassing vile vaping altogether). I "get" smoking was sexy back in the day, in a way nothing else was.

Maybe it comes from working in medicine that the sight of a cigarette repulses me. Rather than mystery or sex - to me - it looks like a deep lack of education. It's one of those things that can never come back - hopefully - and that's a good thing for the vast majority of people who are not able to smoke socially. Sorry to be a wokescold - it's the only exception to being defiantly anti-woke.

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