Hamilton, a professor of economics at Grinnell College, in Iowa, calculated in a paper printed in The Review of Economics and Statistics that the health-scare anti-smoking commercials appearing on the air in the late sixties depressed cigarette sales several times as much as the whole tobacco industry was able to stimulate them through advertising
Twenty percent of the girls responded affirmatively to the question Do you believe that smoking helps people keep their weight down? Elsewhere, Vidrine and colleagues (2006) examined gender differences in expectations about the outcomes of smoking in a sample of 350 adolescent girls and 315 adolescent boys attending two same-gender high schools
My preliminary fascination came with Judy-as-Dorothy-Gale
Grainy band photos and sleazy back-page classifieds crash into bondage diagrams, early twee lettering, faded logos, and ghosted glamour shots all reworked through the lens of burnt-out longing and identity reconstruction
Parents in smoking households were more likely to say their child had been diagnosed with ADHD, a learning problem or "conduct disorder" where a child is often aggressive and antisocial
