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auggierose 4 months ago | parent | context | favorite | on: Marketing to Engineers (2001)

If you were aware, you would never smoke. Same for interest. Why would you be interested in a black lung. Furthermore, desire. Not sure what a cowboy riding on a horse has to do with smoking.

So, none of those commercials teach you what smoking is actually about. It is about getting you addicted so you become an ATM for big tabacco.

throw0101d 4 months ago [–]

> If you were aware, you would never smoke.

Not in the 1950s, 60s, and 70s.

The Marlboro Man first appeared in 1954:

* https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marlboro_Man

auggierose 4 months ago | [–]

Not sure what your comment is supposed to mean.

If you mean that in 1954 nobody knew about the effects of smoking, you are wrong. The cigarette industry was well aware of it:

https://tobaccocontrol.bmj.com/content/21/2/87

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