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She was one of the first women anywhere to smoke in public in England making it popular to smoke. Thereby causing the eventual death of tens of thousands of women to cancer. Not a great legacy at all!

Please don't hang smokers guilt on Princess Margaret.
If you will think back to those times you will realize
tobacco was part of the popular culture. Movies and
advertising of the time were rife with cigarettes, cigars
and pipes. Gentlemen always enjoyed a cigar in the
evening. Enlightened flappers of the generation before
her's claimed that cigarettes were liberating for women.
You might as well blame Queen Elizabeth I for allowing
Sir Walter Ralegh to bring it to England. Every smoker
must accept their own guilt for that vile habit.
I'm a former smoker quit over 15 years and my
mother-in-law just got out the hospital after her lung
cancer surgery. Finally any negative effect Princess
Margaret may have had should be absolved by the fact
that she died a smoker's death as an example to all
future generations of the hazards of tobacco.