Best vintage cigarette ad

After the s and '60s, the FCC made it harder to advertise on television and radio. As of now, companies can still advertise in print, alongside a Surgeon's General warning. Lucky Strikes It's truly remarkable to think that companies could get away with saying medical professionals endorsed their cigarettes. Though, it wasn't until that the first official reports linking cancer to cigarettes appeared publicly.

Sex sells. Desirable women, rugged men, and suggestive slogans have all been a part of advertising for more than a century. The tobacco industry began using such tactics in the s when they began printing pictures of women in costumes on the piece of cardstock used to hold the shape of the cigarette pack — a precursor to baseball cards. Headlines in tobacco ads were often double entendres, inviting readers to decide whether they were talking about their product or the person pictured in the ad. Tobacco companies often chose attractive women to star in their ads to attract the male audience.

Subscriber Account active since. Free subscriber-exclusive audiobook! Everyone knows by now that smoking isn't good for your health. The cigarette was even called "the deadliest artefact in the history of human civilisation" by Stanford University researchers.

At some points it has targeted children, at others it has tried to sound like a health food. The specter of cancer has loomed over the product for decades, and advertisers have done their best to divert your attention from the elephant in the room. Tobacco advertising has been overtly sexist and overtly pro-woman i.