Not a Cough in a Carload
| October 08, 2008

In the pilot of AMC’s hit drama Mad Men,
the ad men of Cooper-Sterling are challenged with designing a campaign
for Lucky Strike cigarettes while ignoring a fact that was becoming
clearer by the day: Smoking kills. In the show, it was 1960. In real
life, the evidence connecting smoking to lung cancer had been piling up
over the previous decade—eventually prompting the Surgeon General
Luther Terry to urge smokers to quit in 1964.

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Use the link below to view the ads which are at times so ignorant but hilarious.

Link:  Cigarrette Ads

Tags:  1950, ads, design, mad men, smoking

Topic: Advertising