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Doctors Hawk Cigarettes – img0131

April 11, 2021 by sutobacco

Doctors Hawk Cigarettes – img0131
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Theme:
Doctors Smoking
Collection:
Doctors Hawk Cigarettes
Published:
1938
Brand:
Old Gold
Manufacturer:
P. Lorillard
Format:
Advertisement
Tobacco Type:
Cigarette
Quote:

No, I don't carry Old Golds in my medicine kit. That isn't where a good cigarette belongs. Natures chemists created fine tobacco for man's comfort and enjoyment: not for his ills and ailments. Yet Old Gold is a fine prescription. The pleasure prescription of an old practitioner.

Comments:

This advertisement features a doctor lighting a beautiful woman’s cigarette. Though he insists that a cigarette is “not a ‘cure-all,’” isn’t for curing “ills and ailments,” and doesn’t belong in his “medicine kit,” the doctor describes Old Golds as a “pleasure prescription.” While the ad claims that there are no blatant health claims here, the fact that a doctor is “prescribing” the cigarette, even if only for pleasure, sends subliminal messages that Old Golds are, at least, not harmful to one’s health.

Keywords:

Doctor, Elderly, Female, Fresh, Male, Natural

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