Actually, that was in the era when all kinds of prescription diet drugs were in vogue. They might have been smoking cigarettes, too, of course. Many Americans were back in those days [including me] before the gov't got heavily invested in anti-smoking ads & cigs were still cheap. Cigarettes were still connected in the public mind with Hollywood, attractiveness, & glamour. Didn't see the Marlboro Man on oxygen until much later, as I recall. mo