in the first paragraph it says "Yet smoking among young white women is at an all-time

high..." It does not seem necessary to specify race or even gender. The topic is how

smoking effects teenagers. Whites, blacks, men, and women are all Americans. In the

same paragraph, the Virginia Slims example is brought up, and is somewhat misleading.

It is difficult to gauge how many young women smoke because of an advertisement like

that. It seems a teenagers' peers would have a greater impact on their behavior and

habits, regardless of the glamorous publicity of the advertisements.

Later in the essay, the author generalizes that sisterhood and feminine solidarity are

used as tools to promote the sales of cigarettes. This is actually somewhat true, and is

true of most brands of cigarettes. The target audience for Virginia Slims is women, s

The author also tries to connect the desire to be thin with smoking, which really does not

because it displays how attractive women were used to promote cigarettes even back then.

Abuse Research Center. She comments "They don't say it's a girl thing; it's a woman

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Approximate Word count = 640
Approximate Pages = 3 (250 words per page double spaced)