I just recommended an AR Tax Day t-shirt to a chemist friend of mine who is just about ready to shrug. I wore mine as a night shirt last night.

http://bit.ly/GulchARTaxShirt

Check your premises.
You are the one that brought up the choice of picture and that she was smoking in it.

You are the one trying to make a moral statement on smoking.

It's unfortunate you're trying to drag the argument into the morality of smoking itself. I won't engage that particular straw-man because I take a very libertarian position on personal choices of substance consumption.
This isn't about the morality of smoking. It is about endorsing corporations whose persistent efforts at concealing and obfuscating truth - whose lies and frauds - have resulted in countless millions of deaths over the last several decades. AR herself gave up smoking shortly after her lung cancer diagnosis, but it was way too late by then. If there were such a thing as an afterlife, I struggle to see how she would feel comfortable being represented as a smoking advocate, knowing what she knows now about the hazards plus the almost overwhelming addictiveness of this substance.
I say let people smoke if they want to. But they need to be armed with all the available information, and not subjected to deep psychological manipulation.
By the way, I felt relieved that smoking was pushed way into the back seat in the AS movies. You never see DT smoking. Even JG's smoking is kept to an absolute minimum. Compare this to the book, which in many passages virtually equates smoking to the "fires of liberty and free thought".

Smoking at the time is not the social offense it is now. In fact it was more the reverse.

The pictures are what they are, she smoked, it was her choice. She would not want the photo changed to reflect your mores rather than her own. Nor should they be.

Good t-shirt, but why the hell have they chosen a picture of her smoking, especially in this day and age?

There is a terrible irony about Ayn Rand's smoking. She effectively died at the hands of the corporations she defended so passionately. Since the 1920s the evidence of tobacco's devastatingly harmful effects was becoming clear, but the tobacco companies threw money at the issue and managed to obfuscate it until the 1980s.

Today, some of the same PR companies and fake science research institutes who used to fog up the evidence about tobacco are now being paid by oil companies to fog up the evidence around climate change.

Or does the t-shirt deliberately feature her smoking as an ironic statement, a kind of in-joke so leftists and hipsters can wear it proudly at their coffee-houses and parties, wink and laugh?

I've bought mine! Love it!

I love it !!!!

A rand quote is a Rand quote, but I wish she'd made it stronger - like "taxes taken from the Producers". Still an all, a good shirt for the day.

I bought the blue one, but I would have much preferred the gleaming blue of Rearden Metal.

We aren't able to see what your password is for the store... you'd need to just go here https://store.atlasshruggedmovie.com/log... and reset your password using your email address. Let me know if that doesn't work or you have other questions.

hey I want to buy two. someone contact me and tell me what my username and password is. and then make it automatic so I never have to log in lol

Do you mind producing this T-shirt in the gleaming blue of Rearden Metal color?