Old Advertisements Prove Ironic in Time
Doctors recommending Camel cigarettes? Safe driving tips from James Dean?
The Consumerist has compiled the "Top 10 Ironic Ads from History" and some of them are real doozies. An ad for Bayer brand heroin makes the cut, as does one for asbestos with the tagline, "When your life depends on it, you use asbestos."
It makes you wonder which of today's ads will go down in history for all the wrong reasons. In light of the economic meltdown, my votes are for those decadent MasterCard commercials and this one from AIG
---Samantha Maziarz Christmann
That baby can't breathe!!
Posted by: Trey A | July 04, 2009 at 05:17 PM
From one of the links: "Remember when you could buy barbiturates for the baby? Cover your house with asbestos? Or get heroin from the doctor? Okay, probably not, but thanks to the immortal beauty of advertising, you can take a trip back in time. Here's our pick of some of the most ironic ads in American history."
Oh, and let's not forget about the days when Coca Cola contained cocaine.
Posted by: Buffalo Libertarian | July 06, 2009 at 09:53 AM