Judge — June 9, 1928 — page 36: what you’re looking at

What you’re looking at

This is primarily a **Life Savers candy advertisement** rather than political satire. The ad features a cigarette positioned next to a Life Savers mint, with text reading "After Smoking" and promoting Life Savers as "the candy mint with the hole." The humor is straightforward product marketing: the ad suggests Life Savers mints freshen your breath after smoking. The visual joke plays on the candy's distinctive hole-shaped design positioned alongside a cigarette. This reflects a historical era when tobacco advertising was commonplace and unregulated, and candy companies freely marketed their products as breath fresheners for smokers—a pitch unimaginable in modern public health contexts.