20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads. 40th Ed.

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20th Century Alcohol & Tobacco Ads. 40th Ed.. A Century?s Worth of Pleasure and Pause

Selling the most delicious vices

Vices or virtues: drinking and smoking provided marketers with products to be forged into visual feasts. In this lush compendium of advertisements, we explore how depictions of these commodities spanned from the elegant to the offbeat, revealing how manufacturers prodded their customers throughout the 20th century to imbibe and inhale.

Each era?s alcohol and tobacco trends are exuberantly captured page after page, with brand images woven into American popular culture so effectively that almost anyone could identify such icons as the Marlboro Man or Spuds MacKenzie, figures s