According to this gallery of vintage cigarette ads, before it started being bad for you, there was just about nothing smoking couldn't fix!

You too could be distinguished like Miss Mimi Richardson...


...an elegant hostess like Mrs. Hamilton Fish, Jr...


Glamorous like Maureen O'Hara...


Fit like America's aquatic stars...


Be fun and popular...


Find romance...


...and live happily-ever-after...with your cigarette, of course.

Cigarette advertisements from the 30s, 40s & 50s [Vintage Ads]
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