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For those who haven't already purchased something today.....i am going to hold out until lunch time. ;)

 

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A Century s Worth of Pleasure and Pause
Selling the most delicious vices

Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush compendium of advertisements, we explore how depictions of these commodities spanned from the elegant to the offbeat, revealing how manufacturers prodded their customers throughout the 20th century to imbibe and inhale.

Each era s alcohol and tobacco trends are exuberantly captured page after page, with brand images woven into American popular culture so effectively that almost anyone could identify such icons as the Marlboro Man or Spuds MacKenzie, figures so familiar they could appear in ads without the product itself. Other advertisers devised clever and subliminal approaches to selling their wares, as the wildly successful Absolut campaign confirmed. Even doctors contributed to a perverse version of propaganda, testifying that smoking could calm your nerves and soothe your throat, while hailing liquor as an elixir capable of bringing social success.

Whether you savor these visual delights, or enjoy inhaling and wallowing in forbidden pleasures, you will certainly be thrilled by this exploration of a decidedly vibrant and sometimes controversial chapter of advertising history.

 

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I love those old ads. Used to have a few posted up around my cubicle at my old job (I worked in the Liquor & Tobacco dept). HR had words with me about them, but I argued they were appropriate for the dept. 2 weeks later, somebody had taken them down and left them on my desk.... so I printed and put up a whole bunch more.

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On 3/15/2018 at 10:39 PM, Fuzz said:

I love those old ads. Used to have a few posted up around my cubicle at my old job (I worked in the Liquor & Tobacco dept). HR had words with me about them, but I argued they were appropriate for the dept. 2 weeks later, somebody had taken them down and left them on my desk.... so I printed and put up a whole bunch more.

And that's a reason you're your own boss now, eh?

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