GenStarX+FollowI responded to someone’s comment on a post about Jackie O. “Killing two babies with chain smoking and amphetamines and it got me thinking: #You know… it’s sad but, the Surgeon General’s warning about smoking during pregnancy did not come out until the year 1964. Watch any old movie from pre-1974 and you’ll see it was common place for pregnant women to smoke. It wasn’t out of malice, it wasn’t out of being classless, it was out of just being purely uninformed because those types of studies hadn’t been published yet. Amphetamines, cocaine, etc. did not have the huge stigma around it then that it does now. Things marketed as diet aides, headache relief, “mommy’s helper”, etc. Shoot, in the late 1890s-1910s era you could buy a syringe WITH heroin for $1.50 from your local sears catalog! #ThatWasThenThisIsNow #TheMoreYouKnow #History #TimesChange #VintageValues #Awareness #TruthInLabeling 10Share
