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Related: How USA women smoking moved from taboo to popular through media manipulation: https://vimeo.com/111346364 https://vimeo.com/111346364 "Attractive wom
by hellbanner 11y ago
Related: How USA women smoking moved from taboo to popular through media manipulation:
https://vimeo.com/111346364 https://vimeo.com/111346364
"Attractive women wearing skirts sat in a park mid-day. At precisely noon, they all lit cigarettes. Press, who had been told by Bernays to watch for something interesting, snapped pictures.. cigarette companies now doubled their consumer base"
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoEdward Bernays truly was a morally ambiguous vanguard. His 1928 book Propaganda is just as relevant and chilling a tract 87 years later.
- GFK_of_xmaspast 11y agoNot really seeing the ambiguous part.
- vezzy-fnord 11y agoWhat are you trying to imply?
- stefantalpalaru 11y agoThat he was bad to the bone.
- benihana 11y agothat you used the wrong adjective to describe someone
- sliverstorm 11y agoI don't think they had to work that hard. Cigarettes check a lot of boxes - oral fixation, the way the smoke moves, the whole concept of a style accessory(1)... it has panache that alcohol certainly can't match. (I don't know the proper name for it, but the idea of one object as part of your person that draws attention, kind of like how a good photograph needs a focal point that naturally draws the eyes)
- JonnieCache 11y agooral fixation Guess who Bernays' uncle was. Yeah.
- hellbanner 11y agoSure, but they were still culturally taboo until Bernay's media exploitation. I think this is kind of fascinating -- imagine one tweet suddenly opening up a segregated demographic.