Lipstick traces on a cigarette / All these memories, baby, are with me yet — written by Allen Toussaint, sung by Benny Spellman, 1962 A leading man suavely leans forward with his lighter to ignite a femme fatale’s cigarette in a 1940s film noir. A “cigarette girl” moves across a busy cabaret floor, machine-rolled offerings dangling from the tray slung around her neck. An out-of-work truck driver pulls one from his pack of Marlboro’s in a roadside diner as he reflects on his frustrations with the politicians in Washington. A beatnik pauses from his typewriter to light up, ashtray comfortably Read more