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.

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