Tobacco advertising was banned for a reason. Believe me, tobacco creatives knew exactly how to control our desires.) The mechanism of advertising and now works the same way, but it was tobacco needed to maintain a strict balance (because tobacco is harmful)) and at the same time successfully sell the product. Briefly about the manipulation […]
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History of one manipulation, or how anti-tobacco activists create “facts” for themselves
Back in 2006, another scandal erupted in the world of anti-tobacco campaigns – the largest US tobacco companies were accused of artificially increasing the amount of nicotine in their cigarettes, while keeping it secret from the consumers themselves. The purpose, of course, was to increase the army of unhappy smokers with the mass of “addicted […]
Continue readingWho really invented the Zippo?
For most, the answer is unequivocal – George Grant Blaisdell! At least that’s what Wikipedia says. But in fact, there are very serious doubts about this statement. And the first thing that reinforces this doubt is the fact that Zippo were not the first lighters with wind shields, making them all-weather. Such lighters first appeared […]
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