Here are some more of the 1993 Kitchen Sink Sports Immortal cards. The 36 card series included baseball, basketball, football, tennis and boxing cards.
More cigarette ads
I went to a card show in Ft Wayne. There were 180 tables. Big crowd. I found one table with a couple of .10 boxes and two tables with .2...
These are very cool. Thanks for sharing.
ReplyDeleteSuch mixed feelings seeing that Jackie ad. On the one hand, it's good that advertisers were willing to use Black spokesmen at a time when there was still such rampant racism. On the other, you hate to see a hero like that encouraging smoking. (Let's face it, kids were going to see and be influenced by those ads.) It's a great picture, in any event.
ReplyDeleteI was wondering when this ad came out... and also when did people it come out that smoking was bad for your health. I was born in the early 70's and knew from a kid that smoking wasn't good for your health... but for some reason... I feel like there was a period when people didn't know it was as bad as they know it is now.
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