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Author: WeAreAllKosh

Jan 20th 2013 at 1:22:44 AM

But I think it was once customary for aristocrats of ''both'' sexes who smoked cigarettes, to use one of those (e.g. FDR did). But nowadays, it's usually only women who want to project that kind of air of elegance, classiness (i.e. stuff often associated with aristocracy)--men who still smoke cigarettes with holders are probably viewed as effeminate for the most part. In other words, I'm not sure if it is a mark of ''femininity'' per se (other than that men rarely do it these days), so much as females who want to project "elegance" or "classiness" (which I know the description doesn't say, perhaps it should though). Now in certain past eras when females generally weren't "supposed to" smoke, that may have been the only "acceptable" way for a woman to smoke, [[TimeMarchesOn but these days that doesn't apply]], and very feminine women can smoke Kools or Camels or whatever if they want. So if you see it these days, it says something more specific about the female besides "femininity"--"elegance" or "classiness", or affectations thereof.