Selling Smoke: Tobacco Advertising and Anti-Smoking Campaigns

Item

Are you bothered by smoker's hack? For your throats sake, switch from 'hots' to Kools

Title

Are you bothered by smoker's hack? For your throats sake, switch from 'hots' to Kools

Description

Young woman trying to ask her boss for a raise, but she is having difficulty communicating it because of her smoker's hack. Bottom of advertisement has penguin holding carton of Kool cigarettes, ads for other accessories, coupon in every box.

Creator

Kool

Publisher

Brown and Williamson Tobacco Company

Date

1941

Subject

Refreshing, Therapeutic, Taste, Flavor, Menthol, Coolness, Penguin

Source

Image from the William Van Duyn Tobacco Advertisement Collection (Ms Coll 20), Medical Historical Library, Harvey Cushing/John Hay Whitney Medical Library, Yale University. A finding aid describing the collection is available at http://hdl.handle.net/10079/fa/med.ms.0020.

Contributor

This project has been funded in whole or in part with federal funds from the National Library of Medicine, National Institutes of Health, under Contract No. HHSN276201100010C with the University of Massachusetts, Worcester.

Type

Magazine Advertisement

Rights

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Language

English

Format

Still image

Identifier

MS_6689703_131_024