Forty years ago, legal battles concerning nicotine addiction — and seductive cigarette advertising — presented a quandary for those who felt “people have a right to choose their poison.”
As the Reagan era began to grind on, photographer Sylvia Plachy prowled the subways, and music critic Tom Smucker admitted, “I like Christmas music. I like the schlock and I like the religion. I like sentimental innocence and I like trancing out on the same standards sung and resung.”
