Boingboing directs us to the following 1941 ad for Old Gold cigarettes. “Something new” has been added to the tobacco blend, and it apparently gives people the crazy eyes. Has the time for Four Loko jokes passed? Yes, yes I think it has.
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Man. I’m glad I quit (3.5 years now), but occasionally I miss that old vice.
I agree, ( 5 years here) IU still get a physical jones for it occasianally.
I agree, ( 5 years here) IU still get a physical jones for it occasianally.
Yep. Especially if I’m having a beer. It’s a brief feeling, but it’s there.
Yes. Quit September of 2001, and even now still can get an occasional twinge when I miss it. Incredibly powerful habit.
“Something NEW* has been added!”
*Nicotine.
*Crack
The eyes… staring into my soul…
Phnglui mglw nafh Cthulhu R’lyeh wgah nagl fhtagn
Ah crap…here come the Old Ones.
They just mispelled the label. Should have been “Old Gods”.
That explains the eldritch larvae framing her head.
Ahh, the old days, when women were woman, and shaggoths were women as well.
ia! ia!
Cthulhu fhtagn!
*writhes*
It’s one vice I happily never picked up. Sometimes I wonder if it’s better to be fat or to smoke. Often, it seems like a tradeoff. Society doesn’t seem as hostile toward smokers as it does to overweight folks.
Try lighting up in public and see how much less hostile they really are.
Legally it is much harsher to smokers. You don’t see Big Macs costing $8.00 a pop. You can still shove as much food into your mouth and sit on your butt wherever you want around whatever people you want (generally this is true). You can smoke in so few places nowadays.
I’m sure you mean how people look at and act toward smokers versus fat people though. I feel like people see smoking a lot less nowadays so maybe it’s just out of the public eye. Maybe because a lot of people are ex-smokers now that it’s different? Obesity is the new buzzword for health problems – it’s everywhere. That could up the hostility too.
I personally am far more disgusted with someone blowing smoke in my vicinity than someone whose muffin top is poking out of their pants. Maybe because I sympathize with the latter.
Mmm… muffins.
Yes, because you should feel derision for everyone your social betters deem you should. You cannot make decisions for yourself, or treat others as equal, because that would be wrong. Do what you are told. Ostracize those you are told to ostracize. Obey.
Obey.
Oh yes you will.
I can see why – there’s no such thing as second hand Big Mac, so people tend to be more forgiving.
Read that first comment again.
I really doubt there was any significant quantity of tobacco imported into the US from the “eastern Mediterranean” during the early 40′s.
The ad is from 1941 when we were still a neutral country, so it’s possible.
Considering the point of a magazine advertisement is to get you to stop flipping through and scope out that page, I think crazy eyes is pretty effective.
Worked on getting me to click on this post anyway.
And when I press here he says “MAMA!”
Seeing the price of a carton of cigarettes now, I think they are comparable to Gold.
Cash for Cigarettes anyone?
Be careful. Someone over at a cable news channel will pick up on your suggestion and broadcast it on the air. “Reports say that Old Gold is the new gold for safe investments!”
If she gets that ga-ga over a Corporal, what happens when she meets a Master Sargent?
Wow…diggin for content I guess.
+1
And this relevant for what reason ?
+1
Your comment is the most irrelevant thing on this site.
If you don’t like a post, just be mature enough and polite enough to ignore it.
If those same eyes were placed on a black character people would be screaming racism.
If the character in the ad was a black person, this post wouldn’t be here.
Must be that Eastern Mediterranean “Kronic” lol..
as of january 1st I will have been smoke free for 2 years
Good job, I quit about 4 years ago except for the occasional cigar on vacation. It’s a tough run but gets much easier as you go on
An herb with ‘small leaves’ imported from the Middle East which makes you dippy . . . can’t imagine what that might have been!
I smoke OG’s and my eyes are fine. Smelly and yellow, but fine.
Is this an honest representation of what you’ll look like if you smoke these cigarettes?
I cannot stop thinking that the girl in the drawing looks like Jane Krakowski.
The eyes are creepy enough. But what REALLY weirds me out is that she has apparently seen fit to glue a fair number of Bratwurst to her face.
American invented Yandere in 1941
Crazy eyes *and* jazz hands, now there’s a product I would buy.