Daily Doc: PM, Aug 8, 1988: Yesterday seat belts, tomorrow strait jackets


Daily Doc: Yesterday seat belts, tomorrow strait jackets


Title: Welcome Aboard This Flight to Glasgow. Will All Smokers Kindly Extinguish Their Personal Freedom.
PM, Aug 8, 1988
Bates #: 2023333562

Sept. 3 1999

Today's document is a print ad that was apparently published by the Tobacco Advisory Council in response to a ban on smoking on British flights in 1988:
CITATION

Title: Welcome Aboard This Flight to Glasgow. Will All Smokers Kindly Extinguish Their Personal Freedom.
Document type: Advertising copy
Author: The Tobacco Advisory Council
Date: 8/24/88
Site: Philip Morris Document site http://www.pmdocs.com/
No. of Pages: 1
URL: http://www.pmdocs.com/getimg.asp?pgno=0&start=0&bool=2023333562&docid=2023333562
QUOTES

Text of the ad:

[headline] BRITISH AIRWAYS GROUNDS ALL SMOKERS

Welcome aboard this flight to Glasgow. Will all smokers kindly extinguish their personal freedom.

[The fine print at the bottom of the ad reads]: Yesterday, seat belts. Today, strait jackets. Where on earth will Britain's smokers be tomorrow?

Note: An interesting historical perspective toward tobacco can be achieved by browsing through the ads the industry has run through the decades. It's also fun! To do this, search using the terms "ad and 193* " for example to get all the ads in their archives from the 1930s.


This service is brought to you by the American Lung Association of Colorado ( http://www.alacolo.org/) and Smokescreen ( http://www.smokescreen.org)

To join Doc-Alert, go to http://tobaccodocuments.org/, scroll down to the bottom of the page, enter your email address in the box marked "Daily Document Newsletter," and click *subscribe.*

Visit the Daily Document Archives at http://www.smokescreen.org/list/viewmsgs.cfm?id=66.

Anne Landman, Regional Program Coordinator
American Lung Association of Colorado, West Region Office
Grand Junction, CO
(970) 245-2120
afoxland@gj.net
This document's URL is: http://www.tobacco.org/Documents/dd/ddseatbelts.html

Return To: Anne Landman's Daily Document Page

Return To: Tobacco BBS Secret Documents Page
***********************
Go To: Tobacco BBS HomePage / Resources Page / Health Page / Documents Page / Culture Page / Activism Page
***********************

END OF DOCUMENT