More precisely: How to make the tobacco industry clap its hands.
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They do advertise quite a bit.
Michelle has gotten her husband to cut down to almost no cigarettes, as best anybody can tell, so two different magazines with identical photos of her are a good flanking composition here.
And the “shutterbug” and “photoshop” magazine titles above are nice. The French government decreed that any future publisher must digitally remove from a famous photo of Sartre the cigarette he was actually holding at that moment. Some day such a photo as this will present a legal problem for Time. Soon photographers will wait until a cigarette is finished, or frame it out.
A legal problem? First Amendment, anyone? Time has shown people injecting heroin on its cover if I’m not mistaken.
That cover is so cool.
It’s all I needed to take up smoking again.
Smoking rules.
“Michelle has gotten her husband to cut down to almost no cigarettes, as best anybody can tell”
How would you know? You all wanna believe he’s quit but there is no way to know if he isn’t sucking down a pack a day. He’s NOT going to do at press conferences.
Huh, I kind of liked how the “M” in “Time” kind of framed like devil horns over the soldiers head.
“How not to lose in Afghanistan”
Lung cancer?
That soldier could get hurt smoking that cigarette!
@5,
I’m sure if he were still smoking, someone would have caught it on camera. He lives in a fishbowl nowadays.
My mother died from smoking, I hate it and what it does to people. That said, it’s shameless but unfortunately accurate. Soldiers smoke.
When the GIs came back from WWII, they all smoked. This is why my mother started, she was born in 1946.
And why many in her generation followed suit.
Shit, if people were shooting at me, I might even light up one.
When my parents bug me about quitting, I just tell them, “I have not smoked any cigarettes on the White House grounds.”
Being a soldier is boring. That is why they smoke.
And the clothing manufacturers don’t get to clap their hands at those two examples of the sleeveless dress conspiracy? In fact everyone on those mag covers appears to be wearing some form of clothes. Surely the sight of those fashions will lure the the unsuspecting and the innocent to a premature death.