{"id":137,"date":"2006-02-22T22:30:23","date_gmt":"2006-02-23T02:30:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/hgr\/?p=137"},"modified":"2006-02-22T22:30:23","modified_gmt":"2006-02-23T02:30:23","slug":"winsor-mccay-tobacco-advocate","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/winsor-mccay-tobacco-advocate\/","title":{"rendered":"Winsor McCay, Tobacco Advocate"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>In 1930, the aging Winsor McCay did a Lucky Strikes ad (which I just found in an issue of the old, original <em>Life <\/em>magazine). The gist: Up until then, there&#8217;d been an ancient and irriational prejudice against cigarettes, which Lucky had just eradicated forever by removing harmful irritants. (Thank goodness!)<\/p>\n<p>Winsor&#8217;s cartoon makes no direct reference to smokes&#8211;there&#8217;s a complex metaphor going on, with the mighty fist of American intelligence smashing a miser&#8217;s fear of banks and making possible a large, well-guarded financial institution. Apparently, the ancient prejudice against cigarettes was as out of date as the ancient prejudice against banks. Or something like that.<\/p>\n<p>(You&#8217;ll notice, however, that Winsor didn&#8217;t let Nemo and Gertie smoke.)<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the ad, and a sideways version of the McCay drawing so you can see all the detail:<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"winsor.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/winsor.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"589\" \/><\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" alt=\"winsor sideways.jpg\" src=\"http:\/\/www.harrymccracken.com\/blog\/archives\/winsor sideways.jpg\" width=\"450\" height=\"969\" \/><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>In 1930, the aging Winsor McCay did a Lucky Strikes ad (which I just found in an issue of the old, original Life magazine). The gist: Up until then, there&#8217;d been an ancient and irriational prejudice against cigarettes, which Lucky had just eradicated forever by removing harmful irritants. (Thank goodness!) Winsor&#8217;s cartoon makes no direct &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/2006\/02\/22\/winsor-mccay-tobacco-advocate\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Winsor McCay, Tobacco Advocate&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-137","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=137"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/137\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=137"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=137"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/harrymccracken.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=137"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}