Posted 6/4/2005 7:36 PM (GMT -8)
I must have known somewhere in the back of my brain that these things were happening. That advertisers were directing things (as they are expected to do)-after all this is their job. Though it wasn't until I actually read this article tonight, did it really hit me and open my eyes more fully. Please take the time to read this, especially if you were, or are a smoker.
"Tobacco companies designed cigarettes to appeal to women's desires to be thin and healthy in ways that went "far beyond marketing and advertising," health researchers said on Monday."
http://www.nlm.nih.gov/medlineplus/news/fullstory_24966.html