Wednesday, November 25, 2020

Sports Immortals Part 2


 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





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  1. These are very cool. Thanks for sharing.

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  2. Such 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.

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    1. I 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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