The comic advertisement on the left depicts a cigar store clerk who is finding success at his job thanks to the popularity of Old Golds. He explains that he loves selling Old Golds because “I don’t have to kid the public… When I tell ‘em there ain’t a cough in a carload of Old Golds, I don’t mean maybe.” The comic on the right features a fireman who had a difficult day on the job, whose lungs should be worn out by swallowing “abut eight quarts of smoke mixed with plaster dust and tar paper.” However, the cause of his cough, he insists, is that he left his Old Golds at the station – when he borrowed a cigarette from a friend, “it made me cough so bad I almost blew the fire into the next building.” The comics, part of a small book, were illustrated by Clare A. Briggs (1875-1930).
Cough, Health, Throat
