{"id":17051,"date":"2020-03-27T05:45:02","date_gmt":"2020-03-27T09:45:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=17051"},"modified":"2020-03-21T15:08:29","modified_gmt":"2020-03-21T19:08:29","slug":"cough-cough","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cough-cough\/","title":{"rendered":"cough, cough"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"attachment_17052\" style=\"width: 235px\" class=\"wp-caption alignleft\"><a href=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cough.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" aria-describedby=\"caption-attachment-17052\" class=\"size-full wp-image-17052\" src=\"http:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-content\/uploads\/2020\/03\/cough-sm.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"225\" height=\"114\" \/><\/a><p id=\"caption-attachment-17052\" class=\"wp-caption-text\">a discounted Brownie Bullet Camera<\/p><\/div>\n<p><strong>Toronto<\/strong>. Many companies last century offered deals on non-competing products to expand their market segment. An example was Marlboro cigarettes and Kodak (in the days before the link between cigarettes and lung cancer\/heart disease was legally confirmed and tobacco products banned from advertising).<\/p>\n<p>Any American for a few bits of cigarette packages could order a Kodak Brownie at a big discount. The tobacco company sells more cigarettes; Kodak moves more film burners for its non camera products; and everybody wins, cough, cough.<\/p>\n<p>My thanks to fellow PHSC member George Dunbar for sending me this advertisement from page 29 \u00a0on the <a href=\"https:\/\/books.google.ca\/books?id=CFIEAAAAMBAJ&amp;printsec=frontcover&amp;source=gbs_ge_summary_r&amp;cad=0#v=onepage&amp;q&amp;f=false\">June 15, 1962 issue of LIFE magazine<\/a>. It was typical of the ads of the day promoting one product by offering another at a lower price via mail order and &#8220;proof of purchase&#8221;.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Toronto. Many companies last century offered deals on non-competing products to expand their market segment. An example was Marlboro cigarettes and Kodak (in the days before the link between cigarettes and lung cancer\/heart disease was legally confirmed and tobacco products &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/cough-cough\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1944],"tags":[972,328,3061,3063,21,425,3059],"class_list":["post-17051","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-ad","tag-brownie","tag-cigarette","tag-cigarettes","tag-kodak","tag-life","tag-marlboro"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=17051"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17055,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17051\/revisions\/17055"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=17051"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=17051"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=17051"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}