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The Richard W. Pollay 20th Century Tobacco Advertising Collection
A catalogue of tobacco advertising examples presented by the Roswell Park Cancer Institute.

 
     
  Tobacco Videos -- a huge collection of TV/Cinema ads for cigarettes  
     
  Old Australian radio ads for cigarettes:Listen here (mp3s) Benson & Hedges; Churchman; Turf; Country Life; Craven Filter; and the ad for Craven A's sponsorship of the 1962 America's Cup challenger "Gretel"  
     
 

Trinkets and Trash: artifacts of the tobacco epidemic
This collection was formed by John Slade, M.D. to supply tobacco industry promotional items and related materials on loan to US public health workers and members of the media for educational purposes.

 
  Doctors and nurses once promoted smoking (once inside link click "play") See also here  
     
 

Roswell Park Group Doing you Damage Website
This site contains video clips of industry spokespeople's statements, you can view a 15 minute walk through the history of 50 years of tobacco industry lies. The movie is available as either QuickTime or Windows Media Player.

 
   
  Here are a series of slides showing
BAT Germany's efforts to convince
the public it really doesn't
want children to smoke.
  BAT Germany PPT Slides  
 
  Test It - from West Germany   Billboard from Germany being careful
to not imply any association between
smoking and athleticism.
 
   
  ...and another lesson from the German tobacco industry: smoking costs so much you won't be able to afford clothes!   Polo - West Germany  
  Polo - West Germany   A desperately ill German Polo smoker
suffering respiratory distress receives
mouth-to-mouth resuscitation from a
concerned passer-by.
 
   
 
Germany outdoes itself yet
again.
 
   
 
"Responsible messages to women: overweight BAD! Smoking GOOD!"
 
     
 
 
  Virginia Slims in the USA invites
customers to "laugh at themselves"
for being sucked in by this advertising.
  Virginia Slims - USA  
 
W - USA   The cigarette for lonely women ...  
   
  "Nobody can take the cigarette from me.
I would rather be beaten up than do without cigarettes" -- a charming ad from Lithuania for the German brand West.
  West - Lithuania  
 
  Madonna - Philippines   In poverty stricken, deeply religious
The Philippines, they've enlisted the
Madonna to sell tobacco.
 
   
  This is NOT a Winfield ad?   Not a Winfield  
 
  Winfield - Europe  
  Sensitive New Age Winfield does its thing in Europe.  
   
  Embassy - UK  
  UK Embassy: a man & his smokes ....  
 
  Titanic & Boy - Vietnam  
  Leonardo DiCaprio & Kate Winslet on the appositely named
Vietnamese brand Titanic. Vietnam also has a brand called Boy.
 
   
  Buz - Canada  
  Buz cigarettes, from Canada.
Note: This is NOT targeted at teenagers wanting to be "naughty".
 
 
  Savage Garden & Jewel - Malaysia  
  Aussie teen band Savage Garden, and Jewel, promoting Camel
to adult smokers in Malaysia, 2000.
 
   
  Indian tobacco companies appealing
to the world's poorest smokers.
  Gold - India  
 
  Kim - Poland   Lacking attention from the men?
Kim's the go in Poland.
 
   
  Marlboro gets them
young in Bali, Indonesia.
  Marlboro - Bali  
   
  Click here to see more ads (Advertising - Part 2).