10 Commercials That Wouldn’t Fly Today
3 min readDec 6, 2022
Cigarette commercials were lethal, but imaginative.
While I write, I often listen to or watch YouTube. Occasionally something really gets my attention. I saw some old TV commercials that wouldn’t see the light of day in today’s world. In large part, many of them were cigarette commercials, but others had different issues. Things like racial stereotypes and sexism were definitely in vogue back in…