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While The Indian Express could not independently verify the provenance or authenticity of the photographs, their virality and the reactions they ignited reveal a decades-old feminist paradox: a deadly habit long stigmatised for women, re-emerging as a tool of defiance, a century after American advertisers first sold the cigarette as a torch of freedom. From public menace to marketed freedom Long before cigarettes meant freedom, women who smoked were treated as a public order problem

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Nicotine itself is also not biologically neutral

It is native to South America, and has been drunk as a tea there for centuries