70s ads

The 40s, 50s and 60s were days of homes with white picket fences and happy families with 2.4 kids. But it was a disturbing world by many of today's standards, as we see in the ads of those days.

Tobacco marketing has employed all sorts of effective (and often dubious) methods to get cigarettes into our mouths and tar into our lungs. One challenge they have faced it to get both men and women to inhale their carcinogenic fumes. For men, it’s fairly easy. We’ve covered this before: just feature a sexy woman, and … Continue reading "She Sells Smokes: 30 “Women-Only” Vintage Tobacco Ads"

Quaker’s new cereal Diet Frosted is so deliciously sweet you can’t believe it has no sugar. Cloister in a speech balloon for a Quaker ad from 1965, featuring Elizabeth Montgomery, “star of ABC’s new televison show ‘Bewitched’”.

Camel cigarettes circa 1970

The power of testosterone unchecked by taste.