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10 Christmas Adverts With Santa Promoting Cigarettes

LOOK: Scandalous Cigarette Ads Starring Santa
Asa Bennett
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Vintage 1950s Christmas advertisement, Old Gold cigarettes, 1952Tagline:"Delivering 'just what you've always wanted' -- a Treat instead of a Treatment - Old Golds"Published in Quick news weekly magazine, December 22, 1952, Vol. 7, No. 25Fair use/no known copyright. If you use this photo, please provide attribution credit; not for commercial use (see Creative Commons license).
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Christmas adverts have been coming thick and fast, with Coca-Cola most infamously poaching Santa Claus for its ads as they show the bearded figure delivering festive joy in the form of bottles of Coke.

HuffPostUK has found that Santa Claus has had a longer commercial history than helping promote Coca-Cola, previously being used to promote cigarettes at Christmas-time as these vintage adverts show.

Santa's Scandalous Smoking Adverts
Cool Santa wants you to smoke(01 of09)
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Santa even does it out on the job(02 of09)
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Santa doesn't care what brand(03 of09)
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Santa wraps himself up in his beloved smokes(04 of09)
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Santa wants to help your throat (05 of09)
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Just HOW many cigarettes could that box hold? (06 of09)
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Santa thinks they're the ideal Christmas gift (07 of09)
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Now Santa looks downright dodgy (08 of09)
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Scary bearded man offering cigarettes(09 of09)
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