“Cigarettes kill, but please buy a pack.”

Confusing, isn’t it? But that’s the message Glamour Magazine sends when it puts articles about the ills of smoking -- how it damages our skin, speeds up aging, and causes numerous health problems including cancer -- in the same issue with advertisements showing us just how “glamourous” smoking can be.

Glamour is an extremely popular global magazine that has recently celebrated its 75th anniversary. In those 75 years, it has seen massive changes in how the world thinks of women, beauty, fashion, and health. Glamour now promotes health and angles itself as a magazine that empowers women. Teenage women also read Glamour and can be unduly influenced by tobacco advertising.

Please join me in asking Glamour to end this hypocrisy and stop advertising tobacco products in its magazine.  

I've been a long-time subscriber to Glamour magazine, but recently I feel that there are more tobacco advertisements than I have ever seen. Can Glamour really not find alternate advertisers for those pages, among all the fashion and beauty products for sale in the world?

Glamour should follow the example of another recent newsmaker: the national chain CVS/pharmacy, which stopped selling tobacco products in its stores in October 2014. CVS's CEO and president, Larry J. Merlo, said in his announcement that "the sale of tobacco products is inconsistent with our purpose." Advertising tobacco products at the same time that articles discuss how smoking damages women's health is inconsistent with Glamour's purpose as well.

Let’s tell Glamour to "practice what it preaches" and refuse to advertise for companies that market unhealthy tobacco products. Please sign this petition and pass it on to women you care about in your life.