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Smoking and female emancipation: when will we learn?

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About a quarter of a century ago, a British tobacco control advocate visiting New York found himself on the receiving end of a withering look and a sharp put-down from an American feminist. His crime? He had recommended a new book called The Ladykillers, a pioneering work by Bobbie Jacobson, at that time deputy director of the British public health group Action on Smoking and Health. The listener objected to the word "lady" in the title.

Jacobson was one of the first people to focus on the then unfashionable subject of women and smoking. Her excellent book highlighted not only the additional health concerns that women smokers face over those of men, but also the way women had been and continued to be specially targeted and exploited by tobacco companies. The explanation offered to the angry New Yorker that the title, borrowed from a classic British post-war comedy film, . . . [Full text of this article]