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Typo: A Monthly Newspaper and Literary Review, Volume 4
[cigarette advertising]
The Detroit Free Press has an article on the devices adopted by cigarette makers to push the sale of their goods. It says: « One firm make quite a reputation by sending forth the pictures of very pretty girls supposed to be engaged in manufacturing cigarettes. It will shock the average smoker to learn that these pictures are all bogus. The cigarettes are not made by pretty girls, but by machinery. The pictures are taken in New York photograph galleries, and the accessories are painted on canvas. The girls are professional models or other good-looking young women hired for the purpose. This may explain to the young man why his letters addressed to certain girls in certain cigarette factories were never answered. The machines were too busy to reply. »