With the snap announcement by K Rudd & Co Canberra that ciggie prices will rise by 25% from midnight and that plain packaging will become mandatory from 1 July 2012, the radio shock jocks and their callers were in talkback frenzy. More than once the ironic term “anti-smoking Nazis” was used.
In the past I have sometimes posted cigarette ads as examples of vintage advertising. Here are some more American examples, using everything from sex, to health, to science, to babies to promote and sell gaspers…
(Click on the pics to enlarge).
