Smoking looks pretty fantastic in ads of yore. I may need to rethink my vices. Toweling off never looked so exhilarating.
Have you ever seen a more fetching football ensemble? It even has a place to hold her smokes. She’s ready to toss an entire carton your way.
These guys are the picture of good health. If they can smoke Camels and protect our liberty, shouldn’t you?
The problem at Christmastime is discerning which Santa to heed. 
Too tough to decide? In any event, Chesterfield makes a pretty good case for evening winding-down. I could curl up inside that window into 1936. Let’s just hope she doesn’t fall asleep with the butt still burning.
I Don't Get It 
What a time. Cigarette smoking was cool and asbestos was a miracle of science. We are never as smart as we think we are.
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The ladies are so hot the ciggies light themselves!
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Ba dum tss.
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It could have been worse. I could have made the Prince Albert in the can joke.
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This is true. I had a Prince Albert image as well. Ew.
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Great ads..even if they are for smoking. I love the football outfit, might need to get that made for halloween 🙂
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Right? It’s covered with little footballs!
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Their fingers and teeth had yet to turn yellow, shy by just a year or two. Hey, the cartoon writers and artists made a safe falling on your head look funny, too. Proving yet again, Kerbey, what you don’t know can kill you.
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disturbing. And are you saying Santa smokes?
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I think if he smoked, he’d weigh less. He does have a ton of travelling to do that day, so I would bet he smokes during the deliveries, then drinks afterward. Then he’s clean the rest of the year. It just takes the edge off while he’s flying over the homes of those who don’t believe.
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Some of the era’s best illustrators worked on cigarette ads– really beautiful art.
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And this from a man who has an enormous collection of beautiful paintings and artwork (at least digitally). I think those illustrators could have made Snuggies look glamorous.
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you’re so right — glamorous Pampers would have been possible.
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Ah! Prince Albert in a can! Let him out! The first crank phone call.
God, these ads are so effective. I want to light up right now! That woman in the first ad has her head thrown back in a wave of ecstasy. At least, that’s how I see it.
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“Effective” is the perfect word. I never throw my head back in ecstasy like that. If Phillip Morris can do that, I may try it, too!
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