I wonder why they haven't went back to doing things like this. You are a content creator, you have been on the internet. You have been outside. I am genuinely amazed that this hasn't made a come back. Especially if the publisher can get away with blaming it on inflation.
I think it really was ubiquitous back then too. Last fathers day i got my dad an old bbq cookbook from the 70s or 80s and the cover was an illustration of a couple smoking at a picnic table. Just perfectly normal stuff.
Even more shocking to me is a year ago I subscribed to Wired Magazine. I counted 10 pages devoted to tobacco ads! Mostly chew but also cigarettes! I had not seen ads like that since the 80s I think.
My old trashy Alexander Kent paperbacks from the 60s and 70s all had cigarette ad pages, printed on much sturdier and longer lasting paper than the actual text! 😂
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I wonder why they haven't went back to doing things like this. You are a content creator, you have been on the internet. You have been outside. I am genuinely amazed that this hasn't made a come back. Especially if the publisher can get away with blaming it on inflation.
I think it really was ubiquitous back then too. Last fathers day i got my dad an old bbq cookbook from the 70s or 80s and the cover was an illustration of a couple smoking at a picnic table. Just perfectly normal stuff.
I love the cigarette ads. We now know that cigarettes are little killers but back then smoking was ubiquitous .
Even more shocking to me is a year ago I subscribed to Wired Magazine. I counted 10 pages devoted to tobacco ads! Mostly chew but also cigarettes! I had not seen ads like that since the 80s I think.
My old trashy Alexander Kent paperbacks from the 60s and 70s all had cigarette ad pages, printed on much sturdier and longer lasting paper than the actual text! 😂