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I was going to suggest, by the way, that it's no less meaningful a question than asking a woman "Why do you shave your legs/armpits/pubes?" But I see that you addressed that one. I see that that campaign was a decade or two before the "Torches of Freedom" publicity stunt that encouraged women to smoke cigarettes—another activity that formerly was associated with courtesans (Lola Montez was the first woman to be photographed with a cigarette); there seems to have been something going around in those decades. . . .