Something "wonderful" happens! Big Tobacco pushed blatant lies on the public for decades, but this is one of the worst I've ev...

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...

This is an example of the way smoking was viewed "back then": not only elegant and sophisticated, but downright sexy. Bette Davis ...

"Yes, it's irritating to listen to that constant, tuneless humming - and more than that, the humming is a sign of jangled nerv...

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: ...

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...

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 ...

In the past I've spilled quite a lot of ink on Milky. Well, not literally, or his suit would be all splotchy. The Milkster was the ...

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...

Here is another of my gif /slidehows of old ads. I've wanted to do one of cigarette ads for a while now, but once I started rese...

How do I leave I want to leave smoking? Albany Daily Star (Blogger's note. I am not kidding. This piece ran word-for-broken-w...