Cigarette Girls
You’re probably familiar with cigarette girls from old movies, historical movies, vintage photos, or iconic cultural films and stories. Popular between the late 1920s to the mid-1950s, cigarette girls worked at bars and clubs, serving a selection of cigarettes and cigars to the club’s visitors. They usually wore pillbox hats and cigarette trays hanging around their necks.
Cigarette girls were widely popular around night clubs and restaurants around the country, and during the thirties and forties, they were extended to casinos, airports, and later arenas during sporting events. With the rise of cigarette machines and later the change in public attitude towards smoking, the demand for cigarette girls eventually ebbed out. A couple of Las Vegas nightclubs still employ cigarette girls today, but more as a cultural icon than anything else.