{"id":32412,"date":"2011-01-14T10:13:34","date_gmt":"2011-01-14T15:13:34","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/?p=32412"},"modified":"2013-11-19T04:34:16","modified_gmt":"2013-11-19T09:34:16","slug":"smokescreen-the-u-s-postal-service-says-no-to-cigarettes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/2011\/01\/14\/smokescreen-the-u-s-postal-service-says-no-to-cigarettes\/","title":{"rendered":"The U.S. Postal Service Revisions the History of Smoking"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/iconicphotos.wordpress.com\/2011\/01\/09\/the-case-of-missing-cigarettes\/\" target=\"_blank\">Iconic Photos<\/a> documents at least two instances in which the U.S. postal service rewrote history, so to speak, taking smoking out of the stamp:<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/114.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-0\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32413\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/114.jpg\" width=\"473\" height=\"224\" \/><\/a><a href=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/219.jpg\" data-rel=\"lightbox-image-1\" data-rl_title=\"\" data-rl_caption=\"\" title=\"\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-32414\" alt=\"\" src=\"https:\/\/thesocietypages.org\/socimages\/files\/2011\/01\/219.jpg\" width=\"443\" height=\"192\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p>Pollack and Johnson are important figures in American history, who smoked before it carried the stigma it carries today, and whose smoking represents the time and culture that inspired their genius. \u00a0How do you balance the desire to be historically accurate and true to the individual, with the desire to avoid endorsing a habit newly framed as a social problem?<\/p>\n<p>Via <a href=\"http:\/\/www.boingboing.net\/2011\/01\/10\/time-traveling-cigar.html?utm_source=feedburner&amp;utm_medium=feed&amp;utm_campaign=Feed:+boingboing\/iBag+(Boing+Boing)\" target=\"_blank\">BoingBoing<\/a>.<\/p>\n<span class=\"ft_signature\"><em><a href=\"http:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/\">Lisa Wade, PhD<\/a> is an Associate Professor at Tulane University. She is the author of <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/American-Hookup-New-Culture-Campus\/dp\/039328509X?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">American Hookup<\/a><em>, a book about college sexual culture; a <a href=\"https:\/\/www.amazon.com\/Gender-Interactions-Institutions-Lisa-Wade\/dp\/0393931072?ie=UTF8&amp;*Version*=1&amp;*entries*=0\">textbook about gender<\/a>; and a forthcoming introductory text: <\/em><a href=\"https:\/\/lisa-wade.com\/intro\/\">Terrible Magnificent Sociology<\/a><em>.\u00a0You can follow her on <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/lisawade\">Twitter<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.instagram.com\/lisawadephd\/\">Instagram<\/a>.<\/em><\/span>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Iconic Photos documents at least two instances in which the U.S. postal service rewrote history, so to speak, taking smoking out of the stamp: Pollack and Johnson are important figures in American history, who smoked before it carried the stigma it carries today, and whose smoking represents the time and culture that inspired their genius. 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