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People were afraid little kids would read the signs and start chewing tobacco. It’s nonsense ... I looked at ’em for over 40 years, and I never chewed tobacco. Didn’t start chewing it until I retired. I was forced to quit my pipe. Got emphysema . . . I didn’t get a retirement. I guess you could say it’s my gold watch.Harley E. Warrick, 74, who painted more than 20,000 barns in his 46-year career with Mail Pouch. Quoted in <i>Bygone Signs</i>
If the government has decided a product may legally be sold, there's absolutely no reason it can't also be advertised. At a fundamental level, advertising provides information.Beth Barnes, chairwoman of the advertising department at the S.I. Newhouse School of Public Communications at Syracuse University. Quoted in <i>Cigarette ads disappear from the scenery</i>
Lowest Cigarette Prices Allowed by Law -- As Low As $1.29Royal Farms convenience stores billboard. Quoted in <i>Leaping through billboard loophole</i>
impotentThe famous Sunset Bl. cowboy will be rebranded Friday. Quoted in <i>Billboards Into the Ashcan</i>
Overall we'll lose 10 per cent of our annual income. But that's OK. It's for the best.Unidentified billboard owner on the AG settlement's tobacco ad ban. Quoted in <i>Marlboro Man rides off into a smoke-free sunset</i>
It's time we made smoking history.Battle rages in North Carolina over a billboard tagline. Quoted in <i>Half-truth in advertising? Anti-smoking groups fuming over ad change</i>