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.
Here
are a series of slides showing
BAT Germany's efforts to convince
the public it really doesn't
want children to smoke.
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!
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.
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.
In poverty stricken,
deeply religious
The Philippines, they've enlisted the
Madonna to sell tobacco.
This is NOT a
Winfield ad?
Sensitive New Age Winfield does
its thing in Europe.
UK
Embassy: a man & his smokes ....
Leonardo DiCaprio
& Kate Winslet on the appositely named
Vietnamese brand Titanic. Vietnam also has a brand called Boy.
Buz
cigarettes, from Canada.
Note: This is NOT targeted at teenagers wanting to be "naughty".
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.
Lacking attention
from the men?
Kim's the go in Poland.
Marlboro
gets them
young in Bali, Indonesia.
Click
here to see more ads (Advertising - Part 2).