These 20 Retro Ads Would Never Exist Today

Lucky Strike Cigarettes

This top-selling cigarette brand advertisement from the 1930s and 1940s would never be used today. But perhaps a display of Santa Claus smoking a “Luckies” would make it seem more appropriate. What are your thoughts about this?

Lucky Strike Cigarettes

To Die For Charles Antell Shampoo

Back-in-the-day, around the 1950s the mainstream advertising industry spoke volumes about how women were portrayed. Illustrating a woman who is contemplating committing suicide simply because her hair is messy.  Understandably women always want good hair days, but going to extraordinary measures in order to promote suicide over messy hair. Crazy, don’t you think?

To Die For Charles Antell Shampoo