These ads are pretty inappropriate to me. This is because they are all ads that have a lot of lies and influential images. Especially the one about the tapeworm, i think that's disgusting and people back then seem like they always wanted the perfect body and life. I say society in North America back then had a lot of peer pressuring going on. Peer pressure to look a certain way, and peer pressure to feel a certain way. They portrayed fat to look like the enemy and cigarettes to be the coolest and best thing at the time. I think the reason they were allowed to publish these ads are because everyone at the time cared so much about being able to fit in. They say all doctors smoke CAMEL cigarettes and people would want this because they'll think it's a healthy kind since doctors do it too. The one about if you smoke, girls will follow you and be attracted. Many young males feel the need to belong and have girls, so they get sucked into the ad. In the ad about lard making you happy, it'll promote fatty foods to make more money for companies that probably sells fatty foods. So they lie and say it'll make it you happy. This is what i think about the ads.
Wow, I never thought about it, but you're right about how peer pressure was present in all those ads. The public was being shown whatever was popular and persured into buying ordoing whatever the as offered. that is actually funny how everyone wated the perfect body butdid the opposite to achieve it. Those same people are probably in bad conditions now.
ReplyDeleteThat's why you dn't do everyhin an advertisent tell you to.