![]() Richard Burton and Claire Bloom attend a reception at the Dorchester Hotel, London, to launch their latest film, Look Back in Anger. (Photo by Thurston Hopkins/Picture Post/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)Ī young woman lighting a cigarette as she sits on a New York park bench at night, circa 1957. (Photo by Vagn Hansen/BIPs/Getty Images)Īustrian actress Julia Arnall, leaning against a shop window and smoking a cigarette. (Photo by Alex Dellow/Hulton Archive/Getty Images)ĭrinking and smoking in the Mannequin Club, 1956. Two women chatting at a coffee bar in London. (Photo by Serge Berton/BIPs/Getty Images) Spanish fashion model, Teresita Montes, sister of the film star Maria Montes, sitting under a Parisian beauty salon's hairdryer smoking a cigarette. (Photo by Reg Birkett/Keystone/Getty Images) Also in the group is Group Captain Peter Townsend (left). Queen Elizabeth II holding a camera at the Olympic Horse Trials at Badminton, whilst Princess Margaret sits behind her, smoking a cigarette and watching the action. ![]() (Photo by Vecchio/Three Lions/Getty Images)Īn office worker leaves her typewriter for a moment for a smoke, and anxiously crushes out another cigarette into an already full ashtray, 1955. ![]() (Photo by Jacobsen /Three Lions/Getty Images)Ī member of a teenage girl gang lying in bed smoking a cigarette, circa 1955. Model Bonnie Sharie uses a long cigarette holder with an unusual wine glass attachment, circa 1955. (Photo by Kurt Hutton/Picture Post/Getty Images)Īspiring actress Jean turns to drink to drown her sorrows after another unsuccessful day looking for work in New York, circa 1955. (Photo by Jacobsen/Getty Images)Ī woman smoking in Newcastle. ![]() From a series of images parodying women's lifestyle and beauty magazines. This woman demonstrates that smoking is wrong for babies, 1955. Naturally, it is important that a baby learn the right habits. From a series of images parodying women's lifestyle and beauty magazines, 1955. (Photo by John Chillingworth/Picture Post/Getty Images) (Photo by Keystone Features/Getty Images)Ī theatre chorus girl smoking a cigarette in an elegant holder, 1954. (Photo by BIPS/Getty Images)Ī teenage girl smoking a marijuana “reefer” in New York. ![]() (Photo by Chaloner Woods/Getty Images)Ī woman smoking a long cigarette which she has constructed using a rolling machine. (Photo by Ron Case/Keystone/Getty Images)Ī woman modeling a dress and smoking a cigarette. She is modeling the outfit she plans to wear to the premiere of her latest film, The Snows of Kilimanjaro. (Photo by Keystone/Hulton Archive/Getty Images) German actress Hildegard Knef in Munich, 1951. It was not until mass-production methods coupled with aggressive marketing that the industry began to see off traditional pipe-smoking and tobacco-chewing habits, particularly in the United States.īelow is a collection of 22 vintage photographs captured women smoking cigarettes in the 1950s. The product was cheap, legal and socially acceptable.Ĭigarettes were originally sold as expensive handmade luxury goods for the urban elite. By the late 1950s around half of the population of industrialized nations smoked - in the UK up to 80% of adults were hooked. ![]()
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