The slim fit and high-waisted design create a sleek, elongated silhouette that flatters all body types
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Vanity cases, minaudires and cigarette cases joined the group of most desirable objects with the rise of smoking in the early 20 th century: We do declare that when tempted to do yourself too well, if you will Reach for a Lucky instead, you will thus avoid over-indulgence in things that cause excess weight and, by avoiding over-indulgence, maintain a modern, graceful form, stated the American cigarette company Lucky Strike in a marketing campaign in the 1920s
Buyers still werent required to pay taxes
And while the death toll from smoking may be its most striking legacy, the study of smoking also reveals aspects of social, cultural, economic and political history, all areas that I explore in my monograph on the history of smoking in Italy in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries.[i] In what follows I present some of the available smoking statistics in post-World War II Italy and close with an observation on mortality