Thursday, January 13, 2011

Dr. Whatsisname Invites You To Smoke

Here's a big coffee table book from 1947 that was most likely distributed to doctors to put in their waiting rooms for their patients' reading pleasure. After all, it presents doctors in a very good light. What doctor wouldn't want this? It even has pictures that will keep children entertained. It just happens to also be produced by a major cigarette company, which has included some not-so-subtle advertising. This is a very large book (12" by 15"), which is hard to center on my scanner, so please forgive the crooked scans.


There are lots more illustrations, but that's it for this post.
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11 comments:

  1. Cappuccinoandartjournal.blogspot.comJanuary 13, 2011 at 8:04 AM

    Wow! Times have changed, haven't they?

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  2. Lisa BJanuary 13, 2011 at 9:07 AM

    Great images!

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  3. DorincardJanuary 13, 2011 at 9:08 AM

    Yul Brynner, born Yuliy Borisovich Bryner, invited us to STOP smoking. He was born in Vladivostok, in the Russian Far East (present-day Primorsky Krai, Russia), not in the Sakhalin Islands (back in you es es a-aar), as he claimed.
    "Lawyer, lawyer, pants on feuer"...:)
    That was long after the days when he was smoking five packs a day. He got his six-pack only from...performing as a trapeze acrobat, at a circus. He had a good posture, stance, stamina...said the co-working ladies from Hollywood.
    Then the lung cancer got the best of him.

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  4. TracyJanuary 13, 2011 at 9:28 AM

    This...is AWESOME. Please post more!!! (Wanna trade my Creepy People in a Sleigh With a Taxidermied Deer photo for it???)

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  5. Aimee DarsJanuary 13, 2011 at 2:29 PM

    What an amazing testament to the time!

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  6. Christine H.January 13, 2011 at 4:34 PM

    Tracy,
    This is very tempting. Those are some very fine creepy people. Even creepier than that first doctor. Here's a link for people who may wonder what we're talking about: http://tracystoys.blogspot.com/2011/01/addams-family-goes-on-sleigh-ride.html

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  7. Brian PaperSpongeJanuary 13, 2011 at 7:36 PM

    What a great piece. What couldn't big tobacco companies get away with back then!?! That book is proof. Next, you'll dig up a poster that says, "Keep Calm and Smoke More." Great post! If you ever have time, please post more from the book.

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  8. FabienneJanuary 14, 2011 at 12:25 AM

    Very amazing and great images! Thanks

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  9. Paul CJanuary 14, 2011 at 5:27 AM

    This post is priceless. Thank medical science for longer life spans...irony upon irony here.

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  10. TrishiaJanuary 20, 2011 at 12:02 PM

    Ironic and scarey. Is there any corporation that has a conscience?!!
    Watched Good Luck, Good Night a couple months ago. Forgot all about when cig commercials were on TV. Guess we have made some progress....

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  11. Tattered and LostJanuary 21, 2011 at 11:40 PM

    This is priceless. I'm jealous.

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