Monday, June 20, 2011

Christmas and tobacco


Tobacco has long been considered an appropriate Christmas gift. My father got cigars as gifts for many years, before he got smart and quit smoking. This is a 19th century advertisements for cigars. Cigars ads with Christmas themes were common for many years.

But, when cigarettes became popular, Christmas advertisements, many using celebrities or Santa Claus were put in many popular magazines. These are a few of the images.



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