what will our grand kids be shocked to read about us and our acceptable 'cigarettes'? plastic everywhere social media as news teflon fossil fuel cars sugar/ultra-processed food
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What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
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Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
#102I miss this awful habit so much. Ever since quitting years ago I never really recovered. It’s like 35% of my mental focus and clarity evaporated. All these moments when something had to be figured out suddenly things became easy if you only went for a smoke. Solutions became crystal clear obvious and effortless. At a price. Without it is always like a little bit of heavy fog is obscuring everything. That I know could…
Why not chew some nicotine gum? People cite things like blood pressure and cardiovascular effects, but seems like caffeine has these same issues and they might just be general stimulant related effects. Have you ever considered if you have add/adhd? You might benefit from adderall as well or some other stimulant. These also have extended release formulations.
I wish coca leaves were available stateside. Not sure the growing requirements, but it seems like they have a lot of similar neuro benefits without much of the harm from the narcotic derivative.
Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
#103I miss this awful habit so much. Ever since quitting years ago I never really recovered. It’s like 35% of my mental focus and clarity evaporated. All these moments when something had to be figured out suddenly things became easy if you only went for a smoke. Solutions became crystal clear obvious and effortless. At a price. Without it is always like a little bit of heavy fog is obscuring everything. That I know could…
Why not chew some nicotine gum? People cite things like blood pressure and cardiovascular effects, but seems like caffeine has these same issues and they might just be general stimulant related effects. Have you ever considered if you have add/adhd? You might benefit from adderall as well or some other stimulant. These also have extended release formulations. I wish coca leaves were available stateside. Not sure the…
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Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
#104It's so strange sometimes watching tv shows and movies from the 90's where you see characters smoking indoors in public places. Like in Seinfeld you will have episodes where Kramer is smoking in offices....and even in the doctor's clinic! There was an episode where Kramer took out a cigar and smoked in a doctor's waiting room. I thought he would immediately get in trouble but none of the other characters cared. And t…
It is hard to overstate how common that was in the nineties, at least here in Spain. Clouds would come out of family bars and diners when you opened the door. Movie theaters and art galleries would have people smoking inside as it was part of their intellectual aesthetic. During weddings giving out Cuban style cigars as a present was assumed. Schools would not allow it officially, but every bathroom and teacher loung…
Same in Greece, that came last in banning smoking in closed spaces since the last 5-6 years! Funny thing, now our clothes in taverns don't smell smoke anymore, but meat and garlic.
Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
#105Today I learned that cigarette filters were designed to spontaneously brown on use to give the illusion that they had trapped a large amount of tar or whatever: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cigarette_filter#Colour_change
Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
#106These don't seem strange to me at all.
Lifestyle marketing, romance, appeals to independence, metaphor, and humor. All timeless advertising tropes. It's cigarettes themselves that are passé.
Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
#107what will our grand kids be shocked to read about us and our acceptable 'cigarettes'? plastic everywhere social media as news teflon fossil fuel cars sugar/ultra-processed food
> fossil fuel cars All or almost all of fire is my guess. My guess is that celebratory fire is last to go, bonfires, fireworks, in 2070 probably roasting marshmallows is at the edge of reasonable behaviour, but the idea that we deliberately burned things as part of normal life will seem very odd. In 1870 fire is the usual (and incredibly wasteful) way humans make light and heat everywhere. In 1970 there's more abstra…
With the decline of cigarettes, there are homo sapiens children growing up today who have never seen fire. First time in two million years.
Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
#108If you want to browse old tobacco ads without the comedy schtick this site adds, Standord has an interesting archive: https://tobacco.stanford.edu/cigarettes/
Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
#109I miss this awful habit so much. Ever since quitting years ago I never really recovered. It’s like 35% of my mental focus and clarity evaporated. All these moments when something had to be figured out suddenly things became easy if you only went for a smoke. Solutions became crystal clear obvious and effortless. At a price. Without it is always like a little bit of heavy fog is obscuring everything. That I know could…
Why not chew some nicotine gum? People cite things like blood pressure and cardiovascular effects, but seems like caffeine has these same issues and they might just be general stimulant related effects. Have you ever considered if you have add/adhd? You might benefit from adderall as well or some other stimulant. These also have extended release formulations. I wish coca leaves were available stateside. Not sure the…
Drink "yerba mate"
Re: What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s? (2024)
#110Earlier quoted context omitted.
Why not chew some nicotine gum? People cite things like blood pressure and cardiovascular effects, but seems like caffeine has these same issues and they might just be general stimulant related effects. Have you ever considered if you have add/adhd? You might benefit from adderall as well or some other stimulant. These also have extended release formulations. I wish coca leaves were available stateside. Not sure the…
Drink "yerba mate"
That is just caffeine.