Smoking Tobacco Is The Best Thing Since Sliced Bread !

While today’s generation encourages smokers to kick the nasty addiction of cigarettes, commercials and ads from the early 1900’s promoted that smoking tobacco was the best thing since sliced bread! By using attractions of sex appeal, social acceptance and even as a tool to health, the tobacco company produced thousands of advertisements hoping to persuade their audiences to increase their profits. Everywhere you looked, there were ads for smoking! Even all the movies had actors with a cigarette on hand in every scene, tempting those watching that smoking tobacco was a lifestyle worth living. Though the companies made their advertisements persuading the customers that buying their product was in their favor, all they truly care about was the money in their pockets. Once I had gotten to the point of choosing which ad I would like to analyze, I knew that cigarettes had been a thing of popularity in the early 1900’s and wanted to check out exactly how they portrayed the image of smoking. Picking the December print of â€Å"flavor your fun with Winston†, I feel as if it could be used as a prime example of exactly how trendy tobacco was. Immediately as you lay eyes on the advertisement you see a golden yellow background with a large image of a smiling young couple smoking Winston cigarettes of course! Other images catch a small glimpse, as you notice along side of the couples’ faces there are racing vehicles and a time watch that is dark orange along with the happy couple having funShow MoreRelatedThe Violence Of Teen Pregnancy2500 Words   |  10 Pagesdrugs, and smoking. The media spends on average twenty-five billion dollars per year on advertising tobacco, alcohol among other things; this advertising is at the fingertips of America’s adolescent’s. All of these media in contradictory to the â€Å"just say no† policy that parents try to enforce, all adolescents see is yes. Adolescents view approximately one thousand to two thousand alcohol and tobacco advertisements in a year. The odds of being exposed to an advertisement for drinking or smoking are farRead MoreWhat Was the American Diet Like 50 Years Ago8269 Words   |  34 Pagesexplosion of convenience items. iii) Time for food preparation became more limited, and the industry responded with a wide variety of pre-packaged foods. iv) Products like Bisquick, Spam, instant oatmeal, canned tomato sauce and pre-sliced American cheese began to appear (Klem 438). i) By the 1950s, the refrigerator had replaced the old-fashioned icebox and the cold cellar as a place to store food. v) Refrigeration, because it allowed food to last longer, made the AmericanRead MoreCase Studies67624 Words   |  271 Pagesmeet most of the chosen evaluation criteria. A rule of thumb that has proved valuable to strategic decision makers is to select an alternative that leaves other plausible alternatives available if the one selected fails. Once you have selected the best alternative, you must specify an implementation plan. Developing an implementation plan serves as a reality check on the feasibility of your alternatives. Thus, it is important that you give thoughtful consideration to all issues associated with theRead MoreIgbo Dictionary129408 Words   |  518 Pagesseveral reasons for not doing this at present. The first is that the ms. represents a form of Igbo current a quarter of a century ago, and the language has changed. It will need to be reviewed by competent speakers of the current language. Secondly, since the preparation of the ms. there have been two maj or published dictionaries of Igbo, by Echeruo (1998) and Igwe (1999) as well as innumerable publications marking advances in the understanding of the grammar of Igbo, which any new publication must