Vintage Marlboro Cigarette Ad form 1941

Retro Ad of the Week: Marlboro, 1941

“America’s Luxury Cigarette”?  Where’s the cowboy?

FUN FACT:  Philip Morris launched the Marlboro brand in 1924 as a woman’s cigarette. After scientists published a major study linking smoking to lung cancer in the 1950s, Philip Morris repositioned Marlboro as a men’s cigarette.  (Source:  Wikipedia)

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