Found in Mom's Basement

Celebrities recommend smoking in these vintage ads

 

Found at Stanford University.

Vintage Philip Morris ads target "those with keen young tastes"

 

Found at Stanford University.

Your dentist recommends you smoke Viceroys

Found at Live Journal.

Ridiculously deceptive vintage ad for an inflatable doll

Found at Community Livejournal.

Vintage ads for bust developers

From 1963:

From 1970:

From 1970:

From 1983:

Vintage ad for sun lamp shows mom frying her baby, 1960

"Be healthy -- stay brown th' year round."

1975 ad for the Mark Eden bust developer

These ads were everywhere in the 1970s. Lord only knows how many of the worthless contraptions were sold before some brave, flat-chested teen gathered her courage and filed a complaint.

Vintage ad for hypnosis lessons by mail, 1963

Hey, gents, don't waste your time with dinner dates and puppy-dog pleading. Use hypnosis to get her in the sack.

The ad doesn't actually say that, but everyone knows where the buxom brunette in the lower right-hand corner is headed.

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Source: Modern Mechanix

Vintage Coppertone ad with questionable messaging

Source: Uh...Bob

Vintage ad that encourages starting babies on cola at an early age

The copy says:

Laboratory tests over the last few years have proven that babies who start drinking soda during that early formative period have a much higher chance of gaining acceptance and 'fitting in' during those awkward pre-teen and teen years."

Source: trendbeheer