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In reply to the discussion: Vintage Ads that are bizarre, weird and wrong. Some almost laughably so (a little pic heavy) [View all]yonder
(9,631 posts)10. My dad smoked Pall Mall's and Lucky Strikes most of his life.
I think these old ads had him indoctrinated. He just couldn't give it up.
He died about 6 years ago - lung cancer.
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Vintage Ads that are bizarre, weird and wrong. Some almost laughably so (a little pic heavy) [View all]
rpannier
Sep 2019
OP
I bought on just like that 3 or 4 years ago. Works great. They still make them. nt.
madinmaryland
Sep 2019
#35
Probably was distributed to doctors. My brother was on phenobarb for seizures.
LeftInTX
Sep 2019
#24
Pretty sure the first one is a joke. The children's cigar one might be, too. The others are real. nt
tblue37
Sep 2019
#2
Oh, I remember the cig ads.(I'm old.) But the emphasis on sugar in the first one
tblue37
Sep 2019
#7
Thanks. For everyone else, the detailed explanation of how this joke as came to be is
tblue37
Sep 2019
#19
The first one IS a hoax (joke, actually). The Nico Time one is fanfiction.
Dave Starsky
Sep 2019
#15
I have NatGeos dating back to 1928 and the ads are amazing, not necessarily in a good way. For
in2herbs
Sep 2019
#20