Life, 1921-04-07 · page 38 of 38
Life — April 7, 1921 — page 38: what you’re looking at
What you’re looking at
This is primarily a **cigarette advertisement**, not a political cartoon. It's a Pall Mall cigarettes ad from an early 20th-century Life magazine issue. The ad showcases packaging options for different contexts—home use, boardroom/director's table, and office—emphasizing cigarettes as a marker of sophistication and social status. The product is displayed in its various box formats (10s, 50s, 100s) with options for plain or cork-tipped cigarettes. The tagline "They are good taste" links smoking to refined behavior. There's no satire or political content visible—this is straightforward period advertising that normalized cigarette consumption across professional and domestic settings before health concerns became prominent. The approach targets affluent consumers by positioning Pall Mall as appropriate for formal business environments.
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