GO to MOOT POINT: CIGARETTE ADVERTISING

Young, now, fresh, new, longer, mellow, cool, smooth, and not habit forming.

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an 1887 cigar store illuminated sign color illustration from a catalog

"Cigars" an 1887 colored glass store sign, illuminated by gaslight

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anti-cigarette advertising at the 1893 Chicago World's Fair

"Special apartments for receiving cigarette fiends"
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a 1895 store window display for a tobacco shop, a smoking human shull

"A grim device" a 1895 store window display for a tobacco store

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1899 little boy smoking a cigarette, a photograph

an 1899 tobacco advertisement

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1905 cigarette advertisement, advertising psychology

bicycles, pants & tobacco: young liberated women of 1905 in a cigarette

advertisement represented a doubling of the market ... tobacco advertisers

appropriated women's rights then, just as they would again 65 years later

with "You've come a long way, Baby" see full size

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1912 Dutch tobacco advertisement, What smaakt dat Lekker, a little boy smoking

a humorous ad for 1912 Dutch cigars "Does that ever taste good"

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Lucky Strike cigarettes, sex in advertising, Do you inhale

"Do You Inhale? ... Certainly" 1932 Lucky Strike cigarettes

... his hand is in his pocket to help allow the erotic image

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1939 Camels cigarettes advertisement, the T-Zone, doctors smoke cigarettes

which cigarettes do doctors smoke, 1939?

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a vintage cigarette ad illustration, when smoking distresses you, cigar sick

"When Smoking distresses you" 1940

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1940 Elaine Shepard for Chesterfield cigarettes ...

Wikipedia: Shepard abandoned acting and turned to freelance journalism. She is best known in this role for her Vietnam War coverage, which became the basis for her 1967 book The Doom Pussy, recounting her experiences with aviators in the early part of the war.

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1951 opera singer Patrice Munsel for Camels cigarettes advertisement

1951 opera singer Patrice Munsel smokes Camels cigarettes "pack after pack"

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1953 matchpacks illustration, giant matchbook

1953 matchbooks, your advertisement here

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1950s Camels cigarettes ad, Smoking aids digestion

1950s true: some physicians believed and advised that smoking aided digestion and regularity

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1954 tobacco LSMFT Lucky Strike cigarettes

a 1954 animated television commercial slogan "Lucky Strike

Means Fine Tobacco" see full size

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1956 Phillip Morris cigarettes ad, Born Gentle

1956 Phillip Morris cigarettes are "born gentle" like babies.

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1957 Players navy-cut cigarette advertisement, package

1957 navy-cut no-nonsense plain regular cigarettes for men with standard beards

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1960s Kool menthol cigarettes advertisement, Come all the way up to Kool

1960s menthol cigarettes ...

Wikipedia: Menthol's ability to chemically trigger the cold-sensitive TRPM8 receptors in the skin is responsible for the well-known cooling sensation it provokes when inhaled, eaten, or applied to the skin. In this sense, it is similar to capsaicin, the chemical responsible for the spiciness of hot chilis (which stimulates heat sensors, also without causing an actual change in temperature).

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1960s Pall mall cigarettes, Christmas gift

in the 1960s it was common for kids to give their smoking parents a carton of cigarettes as a gift ... parents were happy with a gift they could use

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1965 "Parisiennes" cigarettes

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1968 Chesterfield 101 cigarette ad, A silly millimeter longer

The entire gimmick behind Chesterfield 101s was that they were one millimeter longer than the 100s sold by competitors. It was kooky phallic fun.

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1970 Kent cigarettes ad, Kent smokes and that's where it's at

in 1970 Kent cigarettes advertised to black youth ... ironically at that time of social struggle and oppression, "That's where it's at" meant something that was true and real

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1971 Eve cigarettes package illustration

1971 Eve cigarettes in a soft pack: Eves are still sold today ...

Wikipedia: The advertising approach was to make Eve appear to be a beautiful cigarette which made the woman who chose to smoke Eves more attractive, creating a sense of appeal to feminine vanity. Accordingly, the objective was to capture the market share from other brands, particularly other brands targeted to women, and to recruit non-smokers, suggesting that an Eve smoker is more attractive than a woman who did not smoke.

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