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Dentist Recommends – img0166

April 11, 2021 by sutobacco

Dentist Recommends – img0166
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Theme:
Doctors Smoking
Collection:
Dentist Recommends
Published:
1948
Brand:
Viceroy
Manufacturer:
Brown & Williamson Tobacco Corporation
Format:
Advertisement
Tobacco Type:
Cigarette
Quote:

The nicotine and tars trapped by the Viceroy filter can never stain your teeth.

Comments:

This Viceroy ad is reminiscent of Lucky Strike’s “20,679 Physicians Say…” ad campaign of 1930. Similarly, this ad claims that “39,468 dentists say, ‘Smoke Viceroys!’” The company is careful to note, at the bottom of the ad, that it is not claiming that its filter removes all nicotine and tars; however, the larger text indicates that the Viceroy filter protects Viceroy smokers from nicotine and tars, as they become “trapped” in the filter. The dentists are used to prove that Viceroys won’t stain teeth. This series of ads continued to increase the number of approving dentists with each succeeding advertisement, as if the survey numbers were always growing.

Keywords:

Dentist, Elderly, Female, Filter, Male, Mild, Nicotine, Tar

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