The Glass Character
Showing posts with label cigarettes. Show all posts
Showing posts with label cigarettes. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 11, 2021

SMOKESCREEN: a treat instead of a treatment

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One of the reasons I spend so much time on YouTube (OK, the COVID apocalypse is right now the main reason) is to scan the comments, particul...
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...
Tuesday, September 5, 2017

Put a smile in your smoking!

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Saturday, May 27, 2017

I smoke because I bloody want to!

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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, March 30, 2017

"Put a smile in your smoking!": 1950s TV advertising

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Friday, March 24, 2017

Smoke SAFELY in your car!

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Old ads for products that now, somehow, don't seem like such a good idea are a staple of this blog. This one just jumped out at...
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Thursday, February 23, 2017

Cigarette psychology

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There was a time (think Mad Men ) when smoking was so entrenched in culture as to be expected, even required.  A non-smoker was a ...
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Margaret Gunning
Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada
Welcome to Margaret Gunning's blog: a tribute to the strangeness of the ordinary. Ms.Gunning is the author of The Glass Character (Thistledown Press), her paean/tribute to the brilliant silent screen comic Harold Lloyd. Researching and writing this novel celebrating Harold's legacy and legend was by far the most compelling (and fun!) experience in her long and varied writer's life. The novel is available on Amazon and Kindle, Thistledown Press, and other major book sites. Her previous novels, Better than Life (NeWestPress) and Mallory (Turnstone Press) explore her lifelong fascination with family secrets, alienation, and the surprising joys of the ordinary. She has also written hundreds of book reviews (Montreal Gazette, Vancouver Sun, Toronto Globe and Mail) and newspaper columns for small-town papers across the country. Her philosophy: "Everything that happens is happening for the first time."
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