Leroy Neiman Sketchbook

March, 1981

All Hail the return of the sexy, leggy cigarette girl! Mauled and pinched in the Forties and Fifties (the heyday of the rowdy conventioneer), she faded into obscurity when faced with the fashionable taboos of the antismoking era. The recent resurgence of the mesh-stockinged cigarette girl can in part be attributed to the marijuana kick. Although they all peddle brand-name smokes, some girls have become more enterprising. Recently, we've heard of shapely young tobacco vendors' being dismissed fro...