Smoking dangers aside, this was an incredible advertising campaign, both entertaining and effective in the marketplace.
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From 1986 . . .
From 1991 . . .
Also from 1991 . . .
From 1987 . . .
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Smoking dangers aside, this was an incredible advertising campaign, both entertaining and effective in the marketplace.
Click images to enlarge.
From 1986 . . .
From 1991 . . .
Also from 1991 . . .
From 1987 . . .
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I remember seeing ads like this in Seventeen Magazine. I should pull my old mags out and scan them in.
Posted by: Laura Moncur | 01 April 2008 at 10:52 AM
Yay, bravo for women! No longer will those chauvinist pigs keep lung cancer all to themselves.
Posted by: Tors | 15 April 2008 at 10:37 AM
i stopped smoking, but it was the ads that made me think that it was cool to smoke.
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Posted by: ramond bubby | 16 April 2009 at 08:00 PM
ARE YOU ALL SERIOUS?! These were sexist ads that promoted faux feminism so that women would think it was liberating to buy their product. Virginia Slims didn't give a damn about women's liberation and neither did any other marketing campaign in the 70s. These ads used the idea of women's liberation to suck consumers (women) into buying their products for narcissistic means rather than liberation. These aren't cute ads and this was in no way a triumph for women to have their own kind of cigarette.
Posted by: C. Student | 08 December 2009 at 07:50 PM
it's not a big deal these virginia slims cigarettes
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