Maybe tobacco ads were misinterpreted?

[JB 883]

Some ads, like for Salem, show people having fun hiking, skiing, snow sledding, out for a walk, etc.

Has anyone stopped to think, what if, what if what the ads were REALLY trying to say was, "This is the kind of fun you will have if you do use our product".

 

There was one where it shows two women and a man on a sled. They are laughing, full of energy, and just look to be having a blast. Smokers can't laugh or move fast without choking half to death.

I know in my case, when I could not even laugh at sick jokes without coughing, I knew it was time to quit.

 

But yeah, I think the ads showing anything sexy, fun, energetic, mysterious, whatever... maybe it was showing the life you could enjoy as a NON smoker.

 

 

[Wayne045]

Always young, sexy people in those print ads.  Almost never a middle-aged or elderly person,  cause they would’ve looked like, well smokers who can’t walk up a flight of stairs without getting winded

[Whispers]

  10 hours ago, Jet Black said:

I know in my case, when I could not even laugh at sick jokes without coughing, I knew it was time to quit.

yup, that cough sucked

Edited February 22, 2019 by Whispers

[Whispers]

10 hours ago, Jet Black said:

I know in my case, when I could not even laugh at sick jokes without coughing, I knew it was time to quit.

yup, that cough sucked