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Focused on avoiding the future shadow, and refraining from eating sweets or too much food, instead encouraging nicotine consumption.

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Advertisement with information reading Insidious Falsehoods- Boomerangs.

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Advertisement with endorsement from star, Betty Compson. Has information on propaganda.

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Advertisement targeting weight loss, endorsement given by Lady Grace Drummond Hay.

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Advertisement targeting women through weight loss and fat shaming. Focusing on the modern diet and avoidance of temptation, instead of eating sweets, reach for a cigarette.

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Advertisement featuring women, focusing on selling tobacco for sake of weight control

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Advertisement focusing on promoting weight loss through cigarette consumption, featuring Elsie de Wolfe.

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Catherine Moylan, Miss Universe and actress in Ziegfeld Follies, Myrna Darby, and Muriel Finley, Ziegfeld Follies and a renown Hollywood beauty, are featured in this advertisement promoting the consumption of tobacco for the purpose of staying…

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Advertisement featuring Myrna Darby, who performed in Ziegfeld Follies in early 1910-1920s. Darby was also a popular silent film actresss.

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Advertisement is of Billie Burke (1886-1971), who played Glinda the Good witch Fairy in the Wizard of Oz in 1939.
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