Contest Entry (1970)

[miss-warina.livejournal.com]

Comments

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

My parents smoked these. Possibly the least cool brand out there. Oh well, suited them!

[ms-hissyfit.livejournal.com]

I like how the table looks realistically shambled after a breakfast, absolutely unlike the overladen breakfast tables in a margarine ad. There is something comfortable about the lighting and the very 70s decor.

[kincajou.livejournal.com]

smoke kills

[misstia]

in a couple weekends we're having a weekend of smoking ads.....though i have posted we don't condone smoking.....

[kincajou.livejournal.com]

okay

[singeaddams.livejournal.com]

...now where the HELL is that milkman.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

THANK YOU, someone finally posted a non-PC, absolutely sinful 1970s-appropriate comment.

[13oct.livejournal.com]

comment win!!! :))

[ejia-arath03.livejournal.com]

Honestly it looks like she's done with him already.

[pikkewyntjie.livejournal.com]

That's how I have always interpreted it. Notice the half-finished cup of coffee.

[teamrodent.livejournal.com]

Too busy with the mailman. ;]p

[1geek-queen.livejournal.com]

In a way, it looks like the morning after a very good one night stand.

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

At first I thought she was reflecting on the emptiness of her life, but the enigmatic, not-quite-a-smile expression made me think she got a little this morning.

Then I realized: she's calculating how long she has to wait until that first sherry of the day.

[baron-waste.livejournal.com]

Another interesting element here is that they still show the product in use. Later, the cigarette would not be shown lit - and today, ads like those for Newport don't even show the cigarette at all!

Whatcha call a chilling effect.

[I'm of two minds: One, I believe people should be free to make their own decisions, including being free to sell what people are free to buy if they choose. On the other, as somebody pointed out, tobacco is one of the few products still legally sold that need not be misused to be fatal. If used as intended, it kills people. I can see how a society would wish to protect its members from that. The problem is, where do you stop 'protecting' people and allow them to be decision-making adults?]

[mellzie-1963.livejournal.com]

I think the focus in recent years is towards protecting non-smokers from the actions of smokers. It can kill you, make you ill, or just flat-out disgust and annoy you, even if you live with someone who uses it, or are employed in a workplace that allows patrons to use it. If it wasn't for the cash-cow taxation and the powerful tobacco lobby, it probably would be illegal by now.

[laurel-hardy.livejournal.com]

Contrast with the equally political decision to suppress marijuana, which has demonstrated health benefits, to benefit the liquor companies after Prohibition (that out pretty well, didn't it? Right? Except that the Mafia grew from neighborhood protection rackets into an international crime syndicate. Winning!).

[aprilstarchild.livejournal.com]

God, she looks so YOUNG....