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Smoking in children’s picture books
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- Published on: 13 May 2016
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The author of this artice says, "These classic children's books were first published in times when smoking was not widely acknowledged as harmful and a smoking adult male was one of the sex stereotypes". While this is true for the books cited, I have been looking for children's picture books with smokers in the illustrations for several years and am surprised how many current books as well as how many other older book...
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