Remember the good old days. Men wore suits and fedoras. Women word evening gowns and heels and when they got hysterical it was a man’s job to slap them. All black people had jobs working as mammies or butlers. (“More biscuits, sir?”) And smoking cigarettes was good for you!
14 Absurd Ads From Before We Knew Cigarettes Could Kill You
Fifty years ago today, in 1964, the US Surgeon General released one of the most progressive documents on smoking of its time, stating definitively that, yes, smoking tobacco can indeed be fatal. And with it, the Untied States' cigarette culture began its (often frustratingly, grudgingly slow) overha…