1943 magazine ad for Chesterfield cigarettes
What’s going on here with the Commodore lurking behind the Lieutenant? Is he her friend? Her mentor? her dad? Her lover? Her fashion consultant? A creep? A ghost? A German spy? CURIOUS MINDS WANT TO KNOW!
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Ad copy:
first choice
Chesterfield
For MILDNESS and BETTER TASTE
…the two qualities smokers want most in a cigarette
…qualities that can come only from Chesterfield’s right combination of the world’s best cigarette tobaccos. For real smoking pleasure buy Chesterfields, They Satisfy.
You can’t a buy better cigarette
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1943 Liggett & Myers Tobacco Co.
I think I got the 40s-era ranks right. Not much of a Navy presence here in North Dakota.
Looks like my grandmother, who was in the Women Marines and also just looooooved smoking! She was into Virginia Slims when I knew her. No idea what she smoked during the war.