WuMo by Wulff & Morgenthaler for August 14, 2018

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    gary  over 6 years ago

    Remember seeing a reprint of a WWI advertisement showing a General telling a private that it was healthier to smoke a cigarette than eat a sweet.

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    Huckleberry Hiroshima  over 6 years ago

    “Not a cough in a carload.” Old Camels billboard.

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    Teto85 Premium Member over 6 years ago

    King George VI

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    Bill The Nuke  over 6 years ago

    Anyone remember which cigarettes Fred Flintstone used to advertise?

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    InquireWithin  over 6 years ago

    This is true even up to the 70s. I remember being a kid and my old ENT doctor (I had lots of ear problems) used to smoke in the office while he was talking to us. The fluorescent lights were vaguely yellow, as I recall. He died of cancer before I graduated from high school.

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    ksu71  over 6 years ago

    Old Gold

    https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lY6j-8ort7E

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    Nicole ♫ ⊱✿ ◕‿◕✿⊰♫ Premium Member over 6 years ago

    Reminds me of what’s happening with e-cigs (vapes). They started by saying it was healthier and better for your lungs than actual cigs, turns out a study has shown that to be very, very wrong. Ooops!

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    Reaven  over 6 years ago

    Truth be told, a lot of doctors even in the 50s believed that smoking was at best not beneficial, and at worse a serious issue. We had the research to say so, but a series of very low quality of evidence studies of doctors who were essentially bought managed to convince the widespread public that the common medical opinion was that smoking was possibly beneficial. The issue is that tobacco companies had a lot of money to throw around since they had revenue, and anyone who knew smoking was bad lacked the resources to tell anyone until major news or government sources caught on.

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    Bill The Nuke  over 6 years ago

    As a school kid in the early 60s we were shown movies of lungs filled with nicotine and cancerous.

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    Daniel Jacobson  over 6 years ago

    I think, it was Marlborough, that was pushed as “The thinking man’s cigarette with the smoking man’s taste.”

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