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Stanford has an exhibition of old tobacco advertisements. It's remarkable that people back then were so stupid. I'm glad people today are far too smart to fall for this stuff, right?
edit: My sarcasm was more directed at the people who fall for these marketing ploys, not at people who decide that smoking is enjoyable. Hope this preempts offense.
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Wow. I couldn't read through to the last one, the whole thing just made me cringe with every new image & text...
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A lot of advertising from that same period was pretty stupid, not just cigarette ads. Ethics & salesmanship have never been too compatible.
And, as demonstrated by a painful water softener hard sell I recently endured, and every Kevin Trudeau informercial, salesmen still think we're stupid.
BTW? Trudeau? Rich as hell. Not too sure we're getting all that much smarter, on the whole.
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I do have a quibble with the complaint they make that cigarettes were advertised to "calm you when you are nervous and pep you up when you are down." It is my understanding that nicotine DOES do that. That is one reason it is a self-medication drug of choice among manic depressives.
It also is a highly addictive poison that comes packaged with numerous other carcinogens. But that's not my point, my point is that that claim is TRUE, as far as I know.
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