Mon, Jan-25-16, 09:57
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Senior Member
Posts: 2,820
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Plan: ZC/VLC
Stats: 170/148/135
BF:
Progress: 63%
Location: rural Arkansas
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Quote:
Originally Posted by deirdra
Yes, it was, and doctors were doing ads for cigarettes on TV, which is how many people achieved these weights.
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Actually, that was in the era when all kinds of prescription diet drugs were in vogue. They might have been smoking cigarettes, too, of course. Many Americans were back in those days [including me] before the gov't got heavily invested in anti-smoking ads & cigs were still cheap. Cigarettes were still connected in the public mind with Hollywood, attractiveness, & glamour. Didn't see the Marlboro Man on oxygen until much later, as I recall. mo
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