No Smoking

This social retrospective on the cigarette - its momentous birth, its alluring peak, its disreputable fall - is a tribute to the 20th century, a century that created, promoted and glorified the cigarette and then suddenly declared war on it. Can you imagine Groucho Marx without a cigar? Do you remember that a few years ago smoking was allowed in airplanes? Can you tell when New York stopped smoking? In the not so distant past, posing seductively with a cigarette was de rigueur for Hollywood types. How many celebrities today dare to even hold one? No Smoking is a tribute to the 20th century, a century that created, promoted and glorified the cigarette and then suddenly declared war on it. Photographic credits. In decorative flip-top box. 250color/b&w photographs. 400p.