When ads for cigarettes were tolerated, indeed ubiquitous, throughout American media, the pitches often asked questions of the audience. Apparently, it was a good way to get attention and bring the customer into the fold. The questions have resonance today. Here are a couple. You can’t be a-smokin’ if you don’t inhale the smoke. You can’t be a shooter with out a-smokin’. Not a question, but what a statement! Legends in Advertising Awards Print’s new competition recognizes ou
Fairy Soap N.K. Fairbank Co. was founded in 1875 and produced Fairy Soap. The ad that presumably ran in the 1940s shows a little white
Finnish cigarette-ad in 1968. // Tupakkamainos Hymy-lehdessä 4/1968.
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German-language ad for Peer cigarettes (1969)
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Advertising poster for Job cigarette papers by Alphonse Mucha (1898). The law forbidding smoking in public places finally came into effect in England on Sunday, something that the nation’s sm…
"I smoked for 16 years. To stop, every time I started craving a cigarette, I'd suck on a lollipop. That helped replace my craving."
Chicago ad agency Meacham, Ellis & Young is the talk of the industry this week in the wake of the public's overwhelmingly negative reaction to its much-trumpeted, multimillion-dollar "Small 'n' Flaccid" advertising campaign for Merit cigarettes.
Because publisher William M. Gaines took no advertising for MAD magazine, his artists and writers had free rein to lampoon any product and brand without fear of losing a client. Hence the fake adverts that featured most often on the magazine’s back cover. Flickr user Jaspero scanned scores of them from the 1950s to the early … Continue reading "MAD Magazine’s Spoof Anti-Tobacco Ads"
STRANGE PERVERSIONS FROM DECADES PAST.
We take a look at some of the most outrageous vintage ads from the past century.
"Show him it's a woman's world."
Some say that quitters never win. Our parents, in early age, thought us that we should never give up and always pursue what is best for us. There is even a popular poem “Don’t Quit” that teaches ev…
Smoking kills. The message can’t get any simpler than that. It’s not just something activists claim to stop people from making tobacco companies even richer than they already are. Rather, it’s a reality that a lot of people from all…
Millhoff Cigarettes, Men of Genius, 1924. #16 Wilhelm Konrad von Rontgen - X Rays
