Life, 1919-08-21 · page 33 of 40
Life — August 21, 1919 — page 33: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This page is primarily **advertising, not satire or political commentary**. It contains two tobacco product ads from Life magazine (likely early 20th century). The top section advertises "Tea Foil" packaging for Tuxedo tobacco—a soft, flexible wrapper alternative to tin cans. The pitch emphasizes practical benefits: it's pliable, prevents tobacco from drying out, and takes up less space. Below is a full-page Tuxedo tobacco advertisement featuring a man with a blindfold and the tagline "Your Nose Knows," apparently suggesting the product's quality is recognizable by smell alone. The copy emphasizes "Finest Burley Tobacco / Mellow-aged till perfect / Plus a dash of Chocolate." These ads reflect an era when tobacco advertising in mainstream magazines was routine and unregulated. The blindfold imagery, while unusual by modern standards, simply aims to highlight sensory appeal rather than making any deeper point.
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~S$ that most nder than | eat “pe. psn hed indi ‘LIFE: REAT! You’ll Say It Is! The New “TEA FOIL” Package! It’s soft and pliable—decreases i in size as the tobacco is used—tobacco does not cake in the package —no digging it out with the finger. Keeps the tobacco in even better condition — than tin. Now, don’t you owe it to yourself to buy a pack. * age and give Tuxedo a trial? — Not quite as much tobacco as in the tin, but— 60 E SPEC VALLY pat? of 1 For Ping & Croat us Dt — the lightest, thinnest, finest, songest cigarette papers in all the world, fol a Tuxedo cigarette with RIZ LA CROIX. Finest Burley Tobacco Mellow-aged till perfect Plus a dash of Chocolate The Perfect Tobacco for Pipe and Cigarette Guaranteed by comicbooks.com