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An entire century of advertising is covered in Jim Heimann: 20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads , from the glitz of the Gatsby ear to the rugged stoicism of the Marlboro Man. Here's an inside look.
Early 20th century tobacco ads, for example, claimed that cigarettes were a cure-all product that could help smokers lose weight and ease the symptoms of asthma.. In the 1960s consumers became ...
Ads for E-Cigarettes Today Hearken Back to the Banned Tricks of Big ... from San Francisco-based electronic cigarette company JUUL calls back the tobacco advertisements from the mid-20th century.
Ubiquitous cigarette advertisements of the mid-20th century often touted to consumers that smoking particular brands of cigarettes actually provided health ... As for real cigarette ads, ...
You'd be surprised at how blatantly 21st century e-cigarette ads mimic mid-20th century tobacco ads. But saying that e-cigarettes are safe and healthy doesn't give us the full picture.
They've been banished from offices and dinner parties and sent packing from California restaurants, bars and outdoor sports stadiums. Scorned and rebuked, smokers now practice their habit in ...
Old Cigarette Ads and the ... the first to proclaim what I call the "Camel effect," based on my study of an exhibit at the New York Public Library of tobacco advertisements from the 20th century.
An initial ban began earlier than that, of course, with cigarette ads removed from TV and radio in 1965, and health warnings appearing on packets from 1971. But anyone growing up in the 1980s and 90s ...
"My own view is that in many ways, the tobacco industry invented the kind of special-interest lobbying that has become so characteristic of the late 20th- and earlier 21st-century American ...
At the turn of the twentieth century, cigarettes were still a fairly marginal product, derided by moralists as “little white slavers,” mocked by bigots as the habit of immigrants, and eschewed ...
It was considered uncouth for a woman to smoke at the turn of the 20th century, but as the Prohibition era came to an end, tobacco companies aggressively targeted the untapped female market.