Old cig ad What to smoke when you're expecting

Cory Doctorow at 9:50 pm Sunday, May 13

One more M-Day Vintage Ad: a Philip Morris piece from a 1956 Saturday Evening Post celebrating its new packaging by inviting an association between cuddling a newborn and smoking.

There's a good case to be made for tobacco companies as the original sinners of corporatism, with their development of this kind of advertising, not to mention their key contributions to self-serving junk science. There's a (dotted, convoluted) line joining up the MMR scare, climate denialism, and this industry's Mad Men coach outlet, sentimental illustrators coach factory outlet, and tame scientists.

In earlier days...