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Throwback Thursday: where there's smoke
By Mark Alden Branch ’86
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7:40am June 04 2020
In 1957, a magazine editor might still put a cancer researcher smoking a cigarette on the cover and not see the irony. But a sharp-eyed ten-year-old girl sent a withering letter in response (see second photo): “In the January issue was a picture of a man. I have a note for him. DO NOT SMOKE. YOU MIGHT GET CANCER. I really shouldn’t have to tell him this, since he studies cancer.” 
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