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A Gentleman’s Smoke:“Doctor’s Prescription”
“Take one every hour-Dr. Puffo”
[Pharmaceutical Age. 1893.]](http://24.media.tumblr.com/tumblr_m08chxiv8y1qmrpnro1_500.jpg)
A Gentleman’s Smoke:
“Doctor’s Prescription”“Take one every hour
-Dr. Puffo”[Pharmaceutical Age. 1893.]
~ Paine Furniture Company, c. 1915
via Internet Archive
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“Since smoking is a luxury, let us be as luxurious as possible.”
~ Photoplay, September 1926
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“Great for auto drivers - one hand does the trick. Astonishes friends, interests everybody.”
~ Etiquette and the Usages of Society; with A Glance At Bad Habits, by Charles Wm. Day, 1843
via Internet Archive
~ Nerlich &. Co. General Catalogue,, Toronto, Canada; Season 1938-1939
via Library and Archives Canada
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~ Chesterfield cigarettes ad, Saturday Evening Post, 1933
via University of Virginia
I don’t usually post images that are this hard to read, but this one is too interesting to pass up. The 19th Amendment - which gave women the right to vote in the United States - was only 13 years old when this ad appeared, so any woman old enough to vote would have had at least some memory of a time before she had that right. Linking the idea of smoking with the idea of women’s rights - even so indirectly - was an interesting marketing idea.
”I really don’t know if I should smoke…
…but my brothers and my sweetheart smoke, and it does give me a lot of pleasure.
Women began to smoke, so they tell me, just about the time they began to vote, but that’s hardly a reason for women smoking. I guess I just like to smoke that’s all.
It so happens that I smoke CHESTERFIELD. They seem to be milder and they have a very pleasing taste.”
