Vintage Cigarette Ads

Rita Hayworth - Smoking CigaretteAh, remember those good old times, when smoking cigarettes made people feel glamorous and sophisticated. The times, when many an aspiring starlet would smugly pose with a lit cigarette in her hand, blissfully ignorant of the dangers of the smoke swirling around her. It was a golden period for the Tobacco Industry. Nick Naylor would have found it excruciatingly boring, as the spin doctors of that time, did not have to worry about regulations and huge class action lawsuits against the industry.The following site showcases ads and images from that period. The Industry was only peddling death, but was doing it in a beautiful and seductive manner. It was close to impossible to look upon cigarettes as harbingers of suffering and pain.

Link to the site.

  • CristianStar
    This is clearly not the image that we should promote if we want to help people quit smoking. I mean, the photo clearly sends a positive message because it is a celebrity smoking which are considered role models by a lot of people and secondly because smoking seems to be a pleasant activity with no harmful effects, but we all know that the truth is ugly and smoking can kill you.
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