Thanks Mike! I don't know if you know much about Oak Park, IL, but it's probably the most liberal place in the US outside of Berkeley, CA. I'd love to post this pic of old Ronnie in every restaurant storefront. Would be hilarious.
Oddly, when Reagan made this ad the average male life-expectancy was about 62 years, now its almost 77 years;
he quit smoking because it was unsightly and un-presidential and whatever other influence that might have persuaded him.
I'm not sure that the extra twenty years now supposed to inhere in either abstinence from smoking or rejection of the habit to avoid the disapprobation of unlike-minded fellows will really be worth the effort.
Funny though, I thought we were talkimg about sticking something else in your mouth.
Yes, if he hadn't smoked in his youth, Ronald Reagan might have lived to be 100 instead of just 96. Of course, adding years to a life lived as an Alzheimer's patient may not have all that much appeal, come to think of it.