Have asthma? Smoke up!

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

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[charliesmum.livejournal.com]

Gee, Doctor. I've been smoking and smoking, and yet my breathing just keeps getting worse? What am I doing wrong?

Also...major icon and username love to you.

[1girl.livejournal.com]

Dude, cigarettes can cure any disease of the throat. Get with the program.

[moonjaguar.livejournal.com]

I misread that as "Not recommended for children under 6' ".

[chipuni.livejournal.com]

I am madly in love with that advertisement!

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

Sorry to tell you this, but it's fake (http://www.metafilter.com/82419/Weed-Booze-Cocaine-and-Other-Old-School-Medicine-Ads#2603863). If the name - Dr. Batty - didn't give it away, the misspellings of "effectively" and "sores" (in canker sores) on top of the use of modern fonts & desktop publishing-style layout should.

[dangermousie.livejournal.com]

Thanks! This website seemed to think it's genuine though (http://www.health.com/health/gallery/0,,20307049_2,00.html) so at least I am in good company :)

[moonjaguar.livejournal.com]

My grandpa fed one of his horses mullein leaves to help treat the heaves, which is kind of like asthma. Drinking them in a tea with other stuff helped me but smoking them just made me sick. Then again the ones I smoked were ones I picked from a vacant lot and I could've misidentified them or they could've been contaminated with crackhead puke, Mad Dog, dioxins, dog-knows-what.

[thehappycat.livejournal.com]

Mullein flowers are known in Mexico as "gordolobo" and used to treat colds and coughs - at least, from what I've seen, I didn't know it could be used for asthma as well. When one of us has a cold, my mom makes a tea from mullein flowers, chamomile, ginger and half a stick of cinnamon. It really helps, and tastes good with honey.

[swimminginyou.livejournal.com]

Mmm, canker sours! Delicious.

[glass-houses.livejournal.com]

Dare I ask.. is that first one a shop? Seriously.

[jocelmeow.livejournal.com]

Yes, it is.

[glitterberrys.livejournal.com]

What the tittyfuck is an asthma cigarette? is it just a menthol cigarette, or...?

These were real...

[franklanguage.livejournal.com]

I'm inclined to believe the Dr. Batty's cigarettes may be real because in the 50s and 60s there was a very real brand of asthma cigarettes called Asthmadors:



Their active ingredient was belladonna, so do the math.

[sylphslider.livejournal.com]

This is like pickles. We think that pickles are pickled cucumbers, but a pickle can be made of just about anything. Cigarettes are just a smokable substance wrapped in special paper. Joints, for example, are cigarettes.

I have a friend who rolls her own mullein cigarettes and smokes them for asthma. It helps her a decent amount. She has had her baggie of mullein confiscated by the cops a couple of times, but they always return it because it's not illegal to smoke mullein. She buys the herbs at a herb shop and the rolling papers at a head shop.

Maybe the asthma cigarettes in the ad don't have tobacco in them.

[overlord-mordax.livejournal.com]

As a person with asthma, that first one is FUCKING TERRIFYING.

[baron154.livejournal.com]

I've overused this phrase the past few years regarding certain retro things, but for that last ad I have to say it again:

"It's so Mad Men."

[queer-kitten.livejournal.com]

Pleasure Helps Your Disposition!

Who knew?

How do you suppose they *proved* that?

[queer-kitten.livejournal.com]

Also, Rock Hudson is maybe not the best authority on........anything?