A few decades later, in the late 1960s, Virginia Slims latched onto the ideas of women's liberation, a major social movement at the time, via the slogan, "You've come a long way, baby!" Cigarette holders weren't just props Once women began smoking, they quickly noticed that cigarette smoking presented them with problems that men didn't have to deal with when they smoked
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But the prize fight for both sides last year was California, where tobacco companies amassed a campaign war chest of $71.3 million, almost double the funds raised by a coalition of health groups
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