{"id":27467,"date":"2023-12-04T01:03:23","date_gmt":"2023-12-04T05:03:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/?p=27467"},"modified":"2023-12-05T18:30:37","modified_gmt":"2023-12-05T22:30:37","slug":"not-a-good-image","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/not-a-good-image\/","title":{"rendered":"not a good image …"},"content":{"rendered":"
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not a good way to promote the camera product line<\/p><\/div>\n

Toronto<\/strong>. Kodak did show up in the last issue of Life (December 1972), but not in their own ad. Instead, a Kodak camera was featured in a colourful Raleigh cigarette ad as one of many ‘free’ items available with B&W (Brown and Williamson) coupons attached to each cigarette package. I wonder if the ad creator meant ‘three’ coupons, not ‘free’?<\/p>\n

At the time, there was a huge issue over whether cigarettes caused terminal illnesses as stated much earlier in the medical press. Ultimately the case was settled with disastrous effects<\/a> on the (American) tobacco industry.<\/p>\n

At the time, I worked in Montreal for a company that like all companies at the time, permitted smoking in the work place as it had for many years previously and for some years later.<\/p>\n

A thanks goes to our in house photo-historian, George Dunbar, for finding this example of the American tobacco industry trying to sway public opinion with ‘free’ goods (including photographic) while they tried to down play medical issues.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Toronto. Kodak did show up in the last issue of Life (December 1972), but not in their own ad. Instead, a Kodak camera was featured in a colourful Raleigh cigarette ad as one of many ‘free’ items available with B&W … Continue reading →<\/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":[973,398,4495,21],"class_list":["post-27467","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-history","tag-advertisement","tag-camera","tag-coupon","tag-kodak"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27467","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=27467"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27467\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":27503,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/27467\/revisions\/27503"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=27467"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=27467"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/phsc.ca\/camera\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=27467"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}