Today, we have the 5 second ad on YouTube - and it is LOUD and IN YOUR FACE!
Posted on 01/02/2021 2:07:28 AM PST by nickcarraway
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wibHcZ4FNbU
This article leaves out something. Smoking in the Unites states started to rise in the 20th century because the U.S. government promoted it.
If you look at charts, smoking was pretty low in the United States in the early 20th century.
It started rising when the government started giving cigarettes to service members in World War I. If you look at the charts, that's when smoking started to grow in the U.S., and it kept growing into the 60's.
My understanding is that cigarettes were part of a service members rations until 1975.
And yet lawyers and big pharma still advertise.
They advertise drug down to the 60 I.Q. level. Granted, I don't think doctors always make the best choice on what drugs to give their patients, but creating demand with consumers isn't helping.
Wow that long ago? Man, if I don’t already feel old enough. I remember cigarette commercials use to be all over the place, everywhere, on magazines, TV, on buses, subways, newspapers, radios, billboards, even sports programs. I think if a kid in his 20s went back in time to the 1960s, 50s, they would be utterly shocked how acceptable smoking was back then. I remember the smoking car on the Long Island railroad and smoking on airplanes. “Smoke when the light comes on” lol lol Even in the 1980s having meetings at work and the ashtray in the middle of the table and people lighting up. It really was a nationwide addiction for decades, a scam that did absolutely nothing for the consumer but feed an addiction and take their money.
Don’t smoke, never have. And yet I’ll ya, it seems to me that the America that loved tobacco was a better place than the America that hates tobacco. Conversely, I remember the America that prohibited marijuana as a better place than the America that now embraces cannabis.
Part of the popularity of smoking was that many people found that smoking settled their nerves and relaxed them. Considering the stresses of military life and combat, until the evidence showed the long terms harm, it made considerable sense at the time to promote smoking through regular military rations.
I remember reading somewhere
that cigarettes were added to
service members’ rations to
curb hunger. I’m old enough
to remember most all of the
commercials. Tareyton, Salem,
L&M, Lucky Strike, Pall Mall,
Marlboro. Lost both my father
and mother to the effects of
smoking. Both died of heart
attacks.
That is true, even in the 1970’s in the navy, smoking was ok, even encouraged. I finally kicked the habit many years later aftet returning to civilian life.
Today, we have the 5 second ad on YouTube - and it is LOUD and IN YOUR FACE!
Cigarette machines in IBM buildings. Smoking in offices and conference rooms and IBM matchbooks with their logo printed on them. My how times changed.
And began the death of NASCAR into nutscar.
Agreed. The NHL back in the 1970s and 1980s that featured ads for DuMaurier and Players at the old Montreal Forum was far more watchable than the current NHL and the corporate/social justice nonsense of today.
The female model in that ad is Veronica Hamel: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Veronica_Hamel
I wonder when American Indians will be held accountable and pay reparations for introducing the world to Tobacco smoking.
Oh God, I’m old.
“Alarmed, public health advocates mounted anti-smoking campaigns...”
Brought to you by the same filth who got prohibition.
My cousin’s husband was a pilot in Vietnam, F4. In every ration box he got there were 3 cigarettes. Same as Korea ww1 & ww2.
Then all those servicemen came home with a nicotine addiction. Just as some came home addicted to heroin.
I was on a Boy Scout camping trip in the early 1960’s. One of our assistant scoutmasters had been an army officer in
the second world war. He somehow managed to bring home a K ration pack. He opened it while we watched. Among other things that I don’t remember was a can of cheese, and several cigarettes. He ate the cheese, and smoked the cigarettes.
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