Albert Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting

Albert Bierstadt Autumn Woods painting
Alexandre Cabanel The Birth of Venus painting
Virginia Slims campaign also triggered the biggest growth in tobacco advertising aimed at women. At the same time, fears about the dangers of smoking were starting to emerge, leading some women to quit the habit. In response, the industry started marketing new low tar and light cigarettes — and women bought them in record numbers. But in fact, smoking related deaths among women were on the rise and would continue to grow, according to figures from the Center for Disease Control and Prevention. "I think they should feel that they've been psychologically exploited," says Stan Glantz, professor of medicine at the University of California, San Francisco. "That is, there's been careful research to understand what will entice them into smoking. And then the ad's carefully crafted to appeal to those…hot buttons."Tobacco companies continue to run advertisements aimed at women, focusing especially on international markets where rates of women smokers are much lower than they are in Western nations. Advertisements overseas continue