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Future Shadow Faces – img1138

May 25, 2021 by sutobacco

Future Shadow Faces – img1138
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Theme:
Keeps you Slim
Collection:
Future Shadow Faces
Published:
1930
Brand:
Lucky Strike
Manufacturer:
American Tobacco Company
Format:
Advertisement
Tobacco Type:
Cigarette
Quote:

We do not represent that smoking Lucky Strike Cigarettes will bring modern figures or cause the reduction of flesh. We do declare that when temped to do yourself too well; if you will Reach for a Lucky instead, you will thus avoid over-indulgence in things that cause excess weight and, by avoiding over indulgence, maintain a modern, graceful form.

Comments:

Modified to remove the word sweet in response to threats of litigation from the confection industry. The firm which marketed Lydia Pinkham’s (1819 – 1883) Vegetable Compound perhaps has received too little credit as a pioneer in marketing to women. George Hill, President of The American Tobacco Company, claimed he came up with the campaign “Reach for a Lucky” ” after seeing a heavy women next to a slender women smoking on a street corner. However Hill’s campaigns so explicated borrowed from the Pinkham company slogans of some 40 years earlier, it seems clear that his stories were apocryphal.

Keywords:

Female, Health, Slim, Toasted, Weight

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