This paper provides a consistent message that cigarette pack design elements and descriptors continue to influence smokers, the authors write
Promoting cigarettes was big business for Madison Avenue and they responded with TV commercials that had clever slogans, catchy tunes and delightful scenes, all of which promoted the idea that smoking was fun, glamorous, manly (the rugged Marlboro Man* rounding up cattle on horseback to the urgent strains of the theme song from the movie, The Magnificent Seven ) or, in the case of Virginia Slims cigarettes, womanly and independent
The taskforce was created by the Reagan administration
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Tri-County Cessation Center - New York State Department of Health Tobacco Control Program