In the Sixties, Mad Magazine
took on the Tobacco companies
with truth in their anti-smoking
parodies of ads and brands
that were so clever that readers
still remember them today.
David Margolick's article in
New Yorker shows the gutsiness
of MAD, who was publishing
these funny ads even before the
Surgeon General's Findings on
Tobacco...
New Yorker: Mad Magazine's Glorious Anti-Smoking Campaign of the 60's
Romancing The Smoke is John Aaron's blog about his lifelong battle to quit smoking (which he did more than nine years ago) and the stories, history and news in the absurd world of Tobacco and Nicotine. Author of Romancing The Smoke: Reflections of a Nicotine Addict, John illustrated writer Sean Daly's memoir and completed his second book, Aaron's Book of Contemporary Demons. Romancing The Smoke can be found on Amazon. Twitter: @romancethesmoke
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
No comments:
Post a Comment