22 Vintage adverts that would be banned today

If you’re ever in need of an advertising slogan, Men Love Fannies is a good place to start.

1. This 1973 lingerie store catalogue tells it like it is.

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2. These Asthma Cigarettes are not recommended for children under six.

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3. Playboy lifestyle ruined by diarrhea? This is the product for you.

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4. This ad, from Life magazine, 1956, promotes clothes for “chubby girls”.

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5. “Chubby” clothing ads – featuring children who look entirely normal – continued until at least the 1970s.

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6. This extreme vision of a bad hair day is from Charles Antell, a hair products manufacturer.

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7. This anti-malaria medicine which also makes you fat hails from late 19th-century America.

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8. “Gay” had a slightly different meaning in the 1950s.

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9. This 1970s men’s clothing brand offered 23 ways to avoid getting married.

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10. And let’s not forget this ad from the same people.

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11. This studtastic advert for jeans.

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12. Cocaine for children? What could possibly go wrong?

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13. This not-at-all-creepy 1991 ad for Johnnie Walker whisky.

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14. This mid-1990s advert for the Sega Megadrive, as seen in various UK gaming magazines.

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15. And this, for the Sega Game Gear.

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16. This ad for the Neo Geo console from the 1990s is slightly NSFW.

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17. This Marlboro ad uses cute babies to advertise cigarettes, because why not?

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18. If you’re Lucky Strike though, you go for Santa Claus.

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19. Having trouble parenting? TRY SOME BEER.

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20. This ad for Love’s Baby Soft beauty products from the 1980s is all kinds of wrong.

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21. Er, no thanks.

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22. And if in doubt, try some Old Dick chocolate.

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