While mushing my way through a ton of bizarre vintage ads to post, this one jumped out at me, causing me utter disbelief. The text said: &...

Someone, somewhere, some Mad Man of the 1950s, must have thought this would be a good idea for an ad campaign. And there were at lea...

Unusually short for a 1950s ad. This came out back when TV was "radio with pictures", and every ad had a chorus singing the ji...

One of the better YouTube docs about cigarettes and the way Big Tobacco fought the truth (and won, for a very long time: "A treat i...

OK, Corpula. Now comes something even more strange. . . Ew. I don't know what's more creepy:...

At some point in the marketing madness that pushed cigarettes down everyone's throat, a medical note began to sneak in. Nobody is...