[Mr. K]

I’ve known people who smoked their whole lives without getting cancer.

Tobacco companies USED TO BE huge Republican donors.

I think if they were huge Democrat donors, we would all be learning in school about the healthful benefits of “bathing your lungs in cleansing smoke”

[Impala64ssa]

I think if they were huge Democrat donors, we would all be learning in school about the healthful benefits of “bathing your lungs in cleansing smoke”
You may be on to something here:


Typical cigarette ads from the late 30's and post WWII era, FDR, then Truman were in office.

[Impala64ssa]

And who can forget the classic Winston cigarette commercials shown on the Flinstones, these date back to the "era of Camelot", when JFK was C in C.