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Return to the Golden Age of Cigarette Advertising

by mtippett | December 12, 2008 at 08:52 am

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If you're in New York this looks interesting. It's also a great excuse to see one of the city's most impressive buildings, the Public Library.

NEW YORK (AdAge.com) -- An exhibit of print advertising is as filled with stunning creativity as it is with pure horror. Santa Claus hawks cigarettes. Doctors recommend cigarettes as cures for various ailments. Dentists urge their patients to smoke. Babies endorse the cigarettes their "daddies" smoke. The display -- covering ad agency output from the 1920s to the 1950s -- fills the walls at the Science, Industry and Business branch of the New York Public Library. -->

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Barbara McPherson

at 10:09 on December 12th, 2008

It does show how humans can change when they learn more.

Jonathan Wallace (not verified)

at 16:27 on June 8th, 2009

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