Tobacconists Advertising

Illustrations of antique tobacco artifacts, old photographs and contemporary advertising draw the reader through the growth of the tobacco industry and shown promotional ploys and gimmickry that evolved. This highly acclaimed book combines a well-researched text with photographs and price guide to study a hot topic.

Excerpt from Tobacconists' Advertising: A Collection of Selling Phrases, Descriptions, and Illustrated Advertisements as Used by Successful Advertisers In preparing your ads, treat your subject simply but thoroughly. Do not overcrowd your space - leave something for the next time. While prices are the chief attraction in an ad, yet they must be handled carefully. If you are Offering bargains, do not fear to feature the price, but if you are selling a high-grade article at a high price make the description sell it in spite of the price. Don't forget that variety is the spice of advertising. You may advertise the same goods day after day, issue after issue if you will, but do not use the same language or display to do it. Study this book and you will be able to adapt to your use practically every ad that is printed here. If you have not selected a store name, choose one. Then use it in your advertising until it is familiar to every person in your Vicinity. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.

Spanning a century, Pushing Cool reveals how the twin deceptions of health and Black affinity for menthol were crafted—and how the industry’s disturbingly powerful narrative has endured to this day. Police put Eric Garner in a fatal chokehold for selling cigarettes on a New York City street corner. George Floyd was killed by police outside a store in Minneapolis known as “the best place to buy menthols.” Black smokers overwhelmingly prefer menthol brands such as Kool, Salem, and Newport. All of this is no coincidence. The disproportionate Black deaths and cries of “I can’t breathe” that ring out in our era—because of police violence, COVID-19, or menthol smoking—are intimately connected to a post-1960s history of race and exploitation. In Pushing Cool, Keith Wailoo tells the intricate and poignant story of menthol cigarettes for the first time. He pulls back the curtain to reveal the hidden persuaders who shaped menthol buying habits and racial markets across America: the world of tobacco marketers, consultants, psychologists, and social scientists, as well as Black lawmakers and civic groups including the NAACP. Today most Black smokers buy menthols, and calls to prohibit their circulation hinge on a history of the industry’s targeted racial marketing. In 2009, when Congress banned flavored cigarettes as criminal enticements to encourage youth smoking, menthol cigarettes were also slated to be banned. Through a detailed study of internal tobacco industry documents, Wailoo exposes why they weren’t and how they remain so popular with Black smokers.

This is the intriguing story of tobacco advertising--from the beginning of the 20th century to the final years when tobacco companies were forced to stop advertising and look for alternative ways of promoting their products. A complete history, this compendium shows how tobacco companies have battled fiercely to reach new markets, rejected claims of a link between tobacco and fatal illnesses, and finally fought against the implementation of advertising restrictions. The inclusion of more than eighty bold advertisements reflect the social and cultural changes seen in these turbulent years and show the fascinating development of 20th-century tobacco advertising.

Seminar paper from the year 2005 in the subject English Language and Literature Studies - Linguistics, grade: 2-, Otto-von-Guericke-University Magdeburg (Institut für fremdsprachliche Philologien), 17 entries in the bibliography, language: English, abstract: In this essay I want to compare different cigarette ads from Marlboro, Lucky Strike and West in detail and in general. Moreover, I want to analyse the different target groups and characteristics of the different brands' smokers. It is conspicuous that many cigarette brands do not advertise for a particular kind of tobacco and its taste or quality, but for a certain image, lifestyle or attitude. This makes clear that many cigarette brands advertise more for an image than the actual product and brings up the question why cigarette brands concentrate on promoting and emphasizing the brand image. Since the different brands address and appeal to different types of persons or smokers, I am going to find out, what makes a person choose a certain cigarette brand.