We've Come A Long Way
Ewwww... check out this 1956 magazine ad for Philip Morris Cigarettes:
We sure have come a long way in 50 years.
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We sure have come a long way in 50 years.
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Not long enough, apparently. Nearly 23 percent of high-school students and more than 10 percent of the middle-school students in the United States smoke cigarettes. 6% of middle-schooler (grades 7-8) smoke cigars (!) and that number double for high school students. That's from a 2003 survey. We no longer link new babies and new cigarette packaging, (what were they thinking?) but the example many of us set for our kids is still saying, "Do what I say, not what I do." Our species never ceases to amaze me.
Mmmm. Mommy smells like smoke.
Dude.. nothing says love like second hand smoke!
As a kid I used love to fill my grandpa's little wooden smokehouse box with new packs of his cigarettes, fill his lighter with fluid, and put in new flints. I also made him a "toddy" when he got home from work (I was in elementary school). Can't imagine having my future grandchildren do such things ... no I don't smoke, and only on occasion have a glass wine. Different times!
Growing up in the 70's I was sent to the store in Baltimore City (Maryland) to buy 'Cigs' as she calls them, for my mother. I was age 7. There was no law at that time prohibiting minors from buying them. My mother still smokes at least a pack a day. She just survived a battle with breast cancer but the doctor said she would most likely be be back with lung cancer in 5 years or less unless she stopped smoking. She did not.
The other scourge is chewing tobacco, which also causes mouth cancer. It's popular among teens in states like Wyoming.
Certainly has changed. Did you see on the news last night that the companies have been putting more nicotine into the smoke so they can ensure the addiction as well as the revenue?
When we finally realize that this is not just a stinky habit -- it is a true addiction where we as a society need to focus less on making laws to outcast the individual and look more on the bucks the addiction actually kicks back into our state with our lawmakers consent. Just think of the money the government could make if we packaged the stuff with heroin.
OMG, how can they link cigarettes to a newborn baby? If this ad had appeared today, the company might have to risk numerous lawsuits and condemns!
Yeah, and don't you love how Philip Morris wants you to go to their website to teach you how to talk to your kids about NOT smoking? Insidious beasts.
Hey- do they still sell those candy cigarettes? We used to think they were so "cool" when I was a kid. They didn't even taste good, they just looked like little cigarettes. Yee gads. I would flip out if I ever saw my kids with one of those.
Have just come back from Barry Waterfront Festival with it's travelling fairground. We were stunned to see a packet of cigarettes along with the soft toys in one of those machines with the grabbing arms, if you know the ones I mean.
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