These Controversial Vintage Ads Show How Women Were Viewed Before the Millennium

We might be aware of the dangerous side effects of cigarettes now, but for a long time, cigarettes were sold to the public as cool and desirable. Put it this way, if you weren’t smoking a cigarette, then you weren’t cool enough to be seen with. Luckily people don’t fall for such advertisements anymore and are aware that there is nothing cool about smoking.

This advertisement not only tries to promote smoking, but it wants you to think that if you want a girlfriend, then you need to smoke Marlboro cigarettes… As if women aren’t able to make up their own minds and only see the smoke around a man’s head like some sort of thoughtless creature.