ADS OF THE PAST - DID THEY REALLY SAY THAT

Ad #1 - Tape Worms

This ad probably scared me the most out of all four. Its just hard to believe that people back then believed it to be a good idea to willingly ingest a tape worm so that they could eat more without getting fat. Tape worms pose so many health threats. For one, they absorb all of one's vitamin B12, which is vital to the health of your red blood cells. Frankly, tape worms are a parasite, and it's unbelievebly stupid to put one in your body on purpose so that you can eat all you want without getting fat.

Ad #2 - Smoking

This one is rather humourous. It's hard to believe that this sort of ad was taken seriously back then. It really shows you how much we've evolved as a society. If some like this were to show up in these days (which it would never unless it was some sort of a joke), whoever had any relation to it would be murded by the media and woman's rights activists. But frankly, that would never happen, because this commercial is just too ridiculous.

Ad#3 - Lard

This ad doesn't bother me as much as the others. It just tells me that these ads were from a long time ago, and frankly, I don't know if they really thought lard was healthy or not. What I do get from this ad is that advertising was still very young back then, and there were no precedents to learn from, so I'm guessing that the Lard Information Council thought that it would have been a good idea to try to make people believe that lard is healthy by showing a happy family and simply saying lard is good. Obviously you'll never see this stuff now, but i suppose that's because these sort of ads failed in the past.

Ad #4 - More doctors smoke CAMALS

Because I'm not sure of the time when these ads were produced, I can't really judge this one that well. Clearly, at least to the eyes of modern society, the ad is absolutely stupid. Smoking is bad for you, and if anyone should be an advocate of that, it should be a doctor. But it's also true that smoking wasn't percieved as something bad, or unhealthy, so the general public was probably unaware of the irony in this commerical.