darth vader smoking a cigarette Painting by King Felix darth vader smoking a cigarette

OUTRAGEOUSLY SEXIST COMMERCIAL: Braniff Airlines / 1976 How's this for an airline slogan: "Because even an airline hostess should look like a girl." It must have seemed like a good idea at the time - an airline marketing their stewardesses as sexy seductresses

This is a lovely vintage 1940's silver tone cigarette case byHar-Bro of England

Nance R, Delaney J, McEvoy JW, et al

The sales taxes on cigarettes, other tobacco products, and e-cigarettes raises about $400 million annually, with the proceeds going both to the state and local governments

Then China halted Juul sales and India banned vaping, cutting off the two biggest smoking markets in the world

It was such a real moment, Daddario recounts