20 Outrageous Brainwashing Cigarette Ads


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  1. Between the one with the baby and the one blowing smoke in the girl’s face, I’d say the 60s were a mess of testosterone and ignorance.

  2. Hello. Are these images public domain? I would like to use them.

  3. 60’s! Not all these ads were from the 60’s a lot were from the 40’s and 50’s The first “Dr. Spock” baby book (40’s) advised Mom’s who wanted to breast feed to light up to let the milk come down. Was pretty darn common….and everyone, nearly so, smoked.

  4. I find it interesting that you criticise these old ads for “brain-washing” and “manipulation” and yet you use words such as “cancer sticks” to describe cigarettes. I am not a smoker, and I do believe that cigarettes are the cause of a great deal of damage to the health of the general community. I also believe that people should be educated about the dangers of smoking.

    But using over-emotional, manipulative words like “cancer-sticks” in an article attacking others for their use of manipulative language kinda makes you look like a hypocrite.

    I don’t disagree with your message, but if you want to be taken seriously, maybe rethink that approach.

  5. I was born in the late 60’s. My parents (who were older)would weekly drive a 2.5 hour journey with all windows up and both mom and dad smoking. They didn’t want their hair to get mussed. While they did this I literally laid on the floorboard of the car for the freshest air, it sucked. When I see the ad depicting a little girl and her father enjoying smoke rings together, that was just as it was with me and my old man. Cigarettes literally own their users, nicotine addiction is a real scourge.

  6. My Mom said after she delivered my older brother, which was a difficult delivery, the Doctor pulled out a pack and they lit up.


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