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What the Hell Was Going on with Cigarette Ads in the 70s?

https://tohippo.com/what-the-hell-was-going-on-with-cigarette-ads-in-the-70s/
21•Vasbarlog•2h ago

Comments

lmm•1h ago
"Error establishing a database connection", apparently? Groovy.
jonplackett•1h ago
Hug of death
Vasbarlog•23m ago
Exactly!
noelwelsh•1h ago
> Groovy

PHP / Wordpress I think.

Vasbarlog•5m ago
Works now!
DANmode•1h ago
Archived copy: https://web.archive.org/web/20260514073345/https://tohippo.c...
pixel_popping•55m ago
Someone forgot to code a 5-liner RAM cache.
TurdF3rguson•50m ago
Is it about how Joe Camel looks like a cock?
Vasbarlog•29m ago
Nope!
ViktorRay•44m ago
It'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 then you got movies from back then like Jackie Brown (which is a great movie by the way) where you see character's smoking in a mall cafeteria. A mall! A family friendly environment! And it's considered normal!?!?!? Blows my mind.

cjrp•33m ago
Smoking on airplanes is the one that just seemed like an accident waiting to happen. And yet there were (relatively) few incidents caused by cigarettes.
black_knight•16m ago
I heard that air quality on planes was better back then (maybe someone who was alive then can confirm). Because of smoking they had to ventilate the whole aircraft much better. While these days I feel like they are just starving us for oxygen so as to not have to heat up fresh air.
05•10m ago
Turns out using less engine bleed air is good for fuel economy, so now it's 50% recirculated HEPA filtered (which does nothing for the co2 contents) air.
chris_st•9m ago
Nope, not better quality if you don't like the smell of cigarettes.
phs318u•6m ago
Lol. I was 14 when I took a long distance international flight on a 747 in 1979. The family was sitting in the “non-smoking section”. I can tell you for a fact that the air quality in that plane was terrible. Possibly because a number of passengers in the non-smoking section still deigned to smoke. Whaddaya do eh?
m-i-l•7m ago
Or smoking a cigar in an oxygen rich spacecraft cabin, as per the opening scene of the original Planet of the Apes (released in Feb 1968, after the Apollo 1 fire in Jan 1967).
petesergeant•33m ago
I remember transatlantic flights with smoking sections
ArnoVW•9m ago
The day they introduced non smoking (late nineties?) a friend of mine found out as the aeroport. He made a big stink, canceled his ticket and booked a new flight for Amsterdam - NYC with the only company still allowing smoking: Aeroflot.

He spent the better part of a day, flying via Moscow.

The next time he had to fly he grudgingly accepted it.

Sometimes even Shaw's unreasonable man has to come to terms with defeat.

notabotiswear•29m ago
Airplane!, 1980.
js2•9m ago
"You're too young to smoke. You're going to set this whole place on fire."

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ma_XNn1bwOM

https://movies.stackexchange.com/questions/2620/how-do-they-...

notahacker•41m ago
Reminds me of reading my grandparents' old copies of National Geographic from a similar era. The ads were all attractively retro cars or cigarettes. A couple of taglines that stick in the mind are "the thinking man smokes" and "doctors recommend..."!
markyc•34m ago
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

petesergeant•32m ago
Meat not as a treat, but as a staple
Pay08•25m ago
No, it's going to be about either the roll back of nuclear reactors or various social movements.
throw9393ir•24m ago
Perhaps overuse of medication. No real proof it works, severe side effects, "misterious" rise in cancer and other dissieases, state sanctioned censorship, billion dolar corruption scandals...
kortilla•16m ago
Medication for normal emotions
kuerbel•13m ago
Not only teflon, but pfas. Overuse of pesticides. The second coming of authoritarianism 80 years after the last time. Not doing enough about climate change. Anthropocene extinction.
silvestrov•8m ago
> plastic everywhere.

plastic will still be everywhere. The major catastrophe that could happen is for evolution of plastic eating bacteria like the creation of (dead) wood eating bacteria. Look at all the plastic containers etc you have in your kitchen and imagine it's just gone.

> social media as news

Mainstream news isn't going to get any better.

> teflon

teflon has gotten a lot better since it was introduced. It will stick around.

> fossil fuel cars

will be seen like rotary phones: they will not understand why they are so cumbersome or why so many people had resistance against electric cars. It's like electric lights versus living with only oil/candle lights.

I think a near term would be: "you had to go to a cinema to watch a movie?"

bramgn•33m ago
and yet somehow that world seemed more healthy than today's
Pay08•24m ago
It wasn't. Lifespans were almost a decade shorter.
CodeCompost•13m ago
Quit smoking 10 years ago. Best thing I ever did. I'm particularly inspired by articles like this:

* https://www.webmd.com/smoking-cessation/what-happens-body-qu...

According to the article I have 5 years to go till my body has completely recovered from the effects of smoking.

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