16 February 2010

Cigarettes for weight loss

"This disturbing Lucky Strike ad is from 1931. After being reprimanded by the FTC for making claims that their cigarettes caused weight loss, Lucky Strike changed their ads to specify that you were supposed to smoke *instead* of eating, to keep from gaining weight."
And, of course, "everyone knows that heat purifies..."

Credit Clotho98, via Suddenly.

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  1. To be precise nicotine does lower appetite and help people lose weight and you can easily google the scientific research proving that. It's another story what harm it does but this particular claim is right.

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