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Showing posts with label tobacco & smoking. Show all posts
Showing posts with label tobacco & smoking. Show all posts
April 25, 2013
December 25, 2012
25 Outrageous Vintage Tobacco Advertisements Featuring Santa Claus
Cigarette ads featuring the kid-friendly figure of Santa Claus have been numerous from the past. The idea of St. Nick pushing coffin-nails may seem horrific today – but was a regular sight a few decades ago. So, check out these vintage cigarettes and tobacco ads featuring Santa Claus as a smoker.
May 17, 2012
11 Pornstache Cigarette Ads From the 1970s
Feathered cuts. Shirts opened to the pecs. And thick, bushy whiskers. It was the last decade of Thick & Bushy.
1. Benson & Hedges (1971)
2. Salem (1975)
3. Winston (1975)
4. Winston (1976)
5. Salem (1976)
1. Benson & Hedges (1971)
2. Salem (1975)
3. Winston (1975)
4. Winston (1976)
5. Salem (1976)
February 5, 2012
Candid Photographs Capture a Group of GOP Women Got Together for an Old-Fashioned “Smoker” in Connecticut, 1941
The Good Old Party in earlier times elicits images of a boys’ club, with men in suits spending their time shuffling cards and swapping the latest political stories in rooms engulfed in smoke and tobacco. But one young group of Republican women in Milford, Connecticut asked why the casual get-together – called a smoker – was exclusively for menfolk.
And so, on the evening of May 20, members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as had frequently cost them the evening companionship of husbands, sons and brothers.
LIFE photographer Nina Leen chronicled the shenanigans that erupted when a group of GOP women got together for an old-fashioned “smoker” on one long, memorable night in southern New England.
And so, on the evening of May 20, members of the Young Women’s Republican Club of Milford explored the pleasures of tobacco, poker, the strip tease and such other masculine enjoyments as had frequently cost them the evening companionship of husbands, sons and brothers.
LIFE photographer Nina Leen chronicled the shenanigans that erupted when a group of GOP women got together for an old-fashioned “smoker” on one long, memorable night in southern New England.
