While we wait and see whether the POTUS will concede to the PEOTUS these ads from the 1950s are a reminder of a time when America was percei...

Possibly the most unscrupulous and irresponsible advertising campaign in the history of persuasion was when the American tobacco industr...

The drama of the parachute drop has been much used by advertisers to associate their products with the vital difference between life and...

This ad for Philip Morris cigarettes bears examination for a number of reasons. To begin, it’s a case of borrowing a convention from one...

  The American Tobacco Company (manufacturers of the Lucky Strike cigarette brand), unhappy at trailing Camel cigaret...

What unites this selection of mid-century strip cartoons publicising Camel cigarettes is a focus on high risk activities or occupations....

The Olympic afterglow is fading fast and in just two days time will be brutally erased by the return of the true spirit of sport in the ...

Tobacco’s long Age of Innocence lasted through the Thirties and Forties when these bright and breezy ads appeared in mass circulation ma...

This is another postcard trip to the island of Cuba – a soporific image of back-breaking manual labour from a century past. An air of le...

Now that tobacco products are concealed from public view by a PVC curtain, the days when they were openly advertised seem increasingly ...