Ads of the Past

Ad #1
The first ad that talks about using tape worms as a way to lose weight is a shocking one. It says that you can eat as much food as you want and stay thin as long as your using those tapeworms. How can any that be healthy to your body. This will probably shorten your life faster. People will most likely follow this and end up dieing from a heart attack.

Ad #2
The other add with the guy blowing smoke into the girls face is also inappropriate. Teenagers are going to look at this and start smoking to try and get girls. I think the fact that it was okay for teenagers to smoke at that time period that allowed this ad to be shown. Not only that, advertising cigarettes was also allowed. Nowadays you could never see a commercial advertising cigarettes. This ad tells me that the society in America had a lot more "bad" teenagers hanging around and smoking. Today, if there was an ad on how to get girls, it would have something to do with cologne or hair gel. So that's a big difference to todays ads.

Ad#3
This ad is just plain disgusting. Assuming they mean lard is poo, then yea, that's disgusting. Obviously this ad is inappropriate. Your basically telling people to eat doodoo. This ad looks really old which tells me it was a time period when saying these type of things was ok. It also tells me that the society in America was very care free. This ad cannot be compared to any ad today.

Ad #4
This ad is somewhat inappropriate but more ironic. The doctor is supposed to tell you not to smoke yet he's smoking himself. It defiantly isn't good for doctors to have this ad going around. Again, the only reason i think it even exists is because this was back in the day.