Not sure if people who read this know that Erickson’s Corporate headquarters is located in Catonsville, Md., which is a suburb of Baltimore. If you’re been following the weather at all, you know that we’ve been absolutely pummeled with snow. We’re finally digging out, so because of that, I haven’t been able to update the blog until now.
While we’ve been hunkered down getting cabin fever, I was doing a lot of Internet surfing and came up with some more classic commercials.
Well, I’ll bet you had no idea that cigarettes allowed so much fresh air into your lungs. Thank goodness the old commercials were around back then to alert you of this medical knowledge. Check out this ridiculousness for Salem cigarettes.
And if you thought that was an impressive spin job, try this one. The Kool marketing department is able to combine the unbelievable fallacy that your throat will feel great smoking a Kool with the desire to get young children interested in smoking. It’s truly an impressive one-two punch!
And then, with Pall Mall (which unbeknownst to me is actually pronounced “PA-il MAel”), I appreciate how they sneak in the pseudo-science into how “fine tobacco is its own best filter…And look how Pall Mall’s greater length travels the smoke further. Filters the smoke naturally and makes it mild.”
The sophisticated graphics are what sold me on the healthiness of cigarettes!
After you see all of these commercials, you have to wonder what commercials we see every day that are going to seem so absurd in the future.
Here’s one more to leave you with — a classic ad for Mountain Dew. This one just makes me laugh.
