The Deadly Allure of Cigarettes: History and Health Risks

Cigarettes are a product that has been around for a long time. Smoking Tabaco was the rave ever since the mynas started growing it, dating back to 600 – 900 A.D. The Europeans then found out about the plant when they traveled from Europe over the Atlantic Ocean to the Americas. Ever since then Tabaco has been used for a lot of products including Cigars, dip, and most importantly Cigarettes. Cigarettes are a combination of tobacco and other additives that is rolled into a paper cylinder. Over 4000 chemicals are found in cigarettes and 60 of them are known to cause cancer. Even though cigarettes can cause all of this they are still advertised on a daily basis to the public, and the advertisements are mostly focused towards the youth; such

The cigarette brand was named Cigares de Joy, which translates to “joyful cigarettes”. Cigarettes were nothing new to the public and the companies needed to change the game to make people buy their product more than the competition. The producers of Cigares de Joy thought of the perfect idea to advertise their product which was to lie in their advertisement, which in fact is still used by companies every day. This ad was viewed in the Australian News, and other paper outlets. The ad has a women smoking a cigarette with white bold words around the women stating flu and other symptoms that they can cure if one will smoke this specific

There is a lot of competition in the cigarette market and the ad wants to persuade everyone to buy their brand. The subliminal message from when the guy is smiling. It makes the reader think cigarettes are fun to have. Also not like the Ad in the 1880’s it shows a warning fact in the ad to show that the cigarette has carbon monoxide and is very dangerous. In the lower left corner it also tell the buyer how big the cigarettes are and the website for Kool cigarette.

There is Ethos from the brand. Kool has been making cigarettes since 1933 and is a well name brand company of cigarettes. They are sold everywhere and are seen on street billboards and magazines. They are everywhere and it is really hard to miss.

The Kool advertisement really shows pathos. The guy is smiling with a trumpet and is looking very sophisticated. This ad is mostly directed towards the African American community to buy the product. Just the name of the brand itself makes people to smoke it. Kool makes people think while they are smoking it makes them look, act, and seem cool. It looks like he is enjoying himself smoking the cigarette. It makes someone who never smoked before fall into peer pressure even more and makes them think cigarettes are not that bad if one can be happy while doing it. The ad is good by sinking people in to try to