support the sad thing is that if he hadn't pushed his agenda so zealously he may have been able to write up a good piece on the issues surrounding the smokers' rights movement and that would have been informative references to add under smoking smoking in culture art subsection third paragraph slightly re worded for clarity but this was a pleasure that was to be confined to a male world women smokers were associated with prostitution and smoling was not something that society thought proper ladies should be involved in citation needed i would like to add the following refs to the end of that statement greaves lorraine november high culture reflections on addiction and modernity edited by anna alexander and mark s roberts pp isbn xrudy jarret october freedom to smoke tobacco consumption and identity mcgill queen's university press pp isbn x walkowitz judith r october prostitution and victorian society women class and the state pp isbn thanks