Showing posts with label cigarette advertising. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cigarette advertising. Show all posts
Saturday, November 23, 2024

It's a Treat instead of a Treatment! SMOKE OLD GOLD!

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  This bit of blood-chilling Madison Avenue propaganda exhorts us to "keep smoking!" Old Gold is "a treat instead of a treatm...
Monday, February 27, 2023

Win-Win-Win: "An easy labor, a slim baby, and the Full Flavor of Winstons!"

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  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: ...
Thursday, June 6, 2019

Baby Marlboro

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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...
Saturday, August 11, 2018

How mild, how mild, how mild can a cigarette be?

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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...
Monday, November 21, 2016

Butt Out - The Life and Death of Cigarette Advertising on Television

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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...
Friday, June 10, 2016

Don't Stay Too Fat! and other stupid Friday things

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OK, Corpula. Now comes something even more strange. . . Ew. I don't know what's more creepy:...
Monday, November 17, 2014

More Doctors Smoke Camels Than Any Other Cigarette

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