Alex Balk, Smoker
Carol Diehl, Art Critic
Matthew Gallaway , Novelist
Megan Lubaszka, Architect
Angela Serratore, Historian
Tim Siedell, Ad Man
Natasha Simons, Writer
Christina Perry & Derrick Gee, Designers
Dave Wilkie, Ad Man
“The idea that the pregnant mother’s emotional state during pregnancy might have a positive or deleterious effect on the developing baby within here is certainly not new. In an early study from 1941, Lester Sontag found that pregnant women who were anxious, angry and/or afraid tended to have babies with higher heart rates, digestive problems, lower birth weight, and hyperactive.”
So smoke ‘em if you got ‘em, Betts.
• footnote - by Natasha Simons
From the Reader’s Digest article that gave Don trouble on his ‘Lucky Strike’ pitch:
“It frightens me to think of what is going to happen in another decade when our present smoking habits catch up with us,” says Dr. Ochsner. “Already, lung cancer has achieved pandemic proportions… it is significant that the sharp increase in lung cancer is almost exactly proportional to the increase in cigarette sales. I am convinced tht the heavy smoker will develop long cancer — unless heart disease of some other sickness claims him earlier.”
“The Growing Horror of Lung Cancer”, March 1959
• footnote - by Natasha Simons
