Hey, if my doc smokes 'em...
It’s easy to laugh at cigarette ads from the golden age of American smoking—say, from the flapper–ish 1920s through the cool Mad Men–era of the early sixties. The images of doctors and “scientists” reassuring smokers seems to hail from a naive, optimistic time when a pack-a-day habit’s worst consequence was an irritated throat
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[...] javaman wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptHey, if my doc smokes ‘em… It’s easy to laugh at cigarette ads from the golden age of American smoking—say, from the flapper–ish 1920s through the cool Mad Men–era of the early sixties. The images of doctors and “scientists” b…/b [...]