Many Tobacco companies use sexual images to sell their tobacco products. One tobacco advertisement came all the from the 1870s with Watson and Mcgill’s Tobacco. The image featured a couple by a lake in very little clothes consuming tobacco. A Zira Girls cigarette advertisement from 1911 contains a man in a suit carrying of two cigarettes both with women’s heads on the top with the slogan “Made for men”. In the 1930s the quality of the pictures went up and featured better looking women. An example of one of the better drawings is a Chesterfield advertisement with a woman in a dress with the back side of her dress zipped down showing her back with several words and slogans. Sexual advertisements were starting to become prevalent in the 1940s …show more content…
Camel cigarettes were one of the only cigarette companies to feature women wearing revealing clothes. However, some of them were relevant, because the girls were on a boat doing stunts in the water, the image also contained a small picture of the woman with the other parts showing a man with a T on his neck and face representing how tasty Camel’s is. The 1950s is where cigarette advertisements started showing exclusively a sexy woman on the image with little to no words with just a pack of cigarettes and maybe a slogan. A Lucky Strike advertisement featured only a woman in a black dress showing a little bit of cleavage holding a cigarette with a picture of the carton on the side. A Virginia cigarette’s advertisement showed a woman in a bathing suit holding a carton of cigarettes. The 1960s is where the advertisements became more sexual featuring women with very little clothing. These were becoming more popular and being produced by many different companies. Tiparillo started a series of advertisements featuring very sexualized women with the slogan “Should a gentleman offer a