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They said it would never happen. I said it might. And now it has. Tobacco advertising: a thing that existed once. In rough form, with unmastered sound and no end credits. A week in advance. For YOU.

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The Hard Sell, Episode Thirty-Six (cough rut)

Cancer!

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Stuart Kenny

Brilliant Matthew, simply brilliant. It might be controversial, but at one point, tobacco advertising was ubiquitous. I still remember billboards for Regal (with Reg) and Lambert and Butler. They were amusing, but didn't glamourise smoking. I remember the Russ Abbot Castella adverts, that catflap one was great, but my favourite was the golf one: <a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt_ovWXow2s" rel="nofollow noopener" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jt_ovWXow2s</a> In all, a great video, and thought provoking too.

Stuart Kenny

Oh, and the Strand advert was featured tonight on Keith Richards' Lost Weekend on BBC Four. I had to chuckle at his thoughts on it. :P