Cigarettes

For this week's 4CP Friday at HiLobrow, Matthew Battles considers cigarettes: "As in film, the comic cigarette billows and burns with inspiration, contemplation, pleasure, danger, and idleness." Seeing that all the smokers on 4CP were men, I went looking for some balance, but in my mid-Century comics, the only women I could find lighting up were also taking pleasure in premarital sex and bank robberies.