In the years before tobacco companies considered it culturally viable to advertise directly to women, they offered more subtle and suggestive notions to would-be women smokers. This Chesterfield advertising slogan initiated in 1926 reportedly led to an increase in sales of 40 percent.
(Credit: Liggett and Myers, 1926)

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