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Originally Posted by indyfabz
Here is the context:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Space_Merchants

Note that the woman is smoking a cigarette.

The image does not represent a positive version of the future. Quite the opposite.
The plot description eerily parallels our current state...multinational corporations rule the world and governments exist only to protect these corporations. Prescient indeed.
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