48 ads that would never be allowed today

And I LOVE the smell of good pipe tobacco even though smoke makes me sick. :)

Some really awful stuff there though...

...it's Palins, isn't it!

seems pretty innocuous too (I guess the problem there is that cleaning ads are never/rarely aimed at men?).

What strikes me as funny about these lists is how many of today's ads would never have been allowed in decades past - I bet a far higher proportion of modern ads would be unacceptable in the past than the other way around...

It may have been the same one as in the article -- I'm not sure. But it seemed terribly, terribly wrong to me even when I was 15 or so.

http://badbanana.typepad.com/weblog/2007/06/advertising_the.html

Thorazine ads are always fun.

And here's a nice collection of cigarette ads...

http://lane.stanford.edu/tobacco/index.html

I didn't catch it on that page but occasionally someone posts it.

The Tipalet one I can actually see still running. I mean, half the booze ads in magazines these daysare worse and not even half as funny. And the WWII VD ad is amazing, don't care what anyone thinks. And the promotional literature you see with the army lit or in school sex ed stuff just changes up the slang really.

Mind you most of them or so ridiculously over the top, I can't even believe they ran even back then. Really Van Heusen? Wow. Just wow. Sexist, racist, and in poor taste. Wow. Makes me glad I already don't buy their products.

I will admit I laughed at the cellophane one. But by all that is holy, that couldn't have even sounded like a good idea back then. Marketer fail.

The Volkswagen one would still work if you substituted "teen" for "wife". Take your own implications away from that.

One beer a day isn't unhealthy.

(Unless you have alcoholism, of course. Then again, albinos can't go to the beach.)