vintage ads: Drugs

[konchog uma]

a great blog

http://vintage-ads.livejournal.com/88173.html

[Flolfolil]

funny pics but what was your motive in posting this?

[timelessness]

He was trying to make you laugh, I guess.

[eye_of_the_storm]

those ads are highly disturbing haha

[Flolfolil]

He was trying to make you laugh, I guess.

guess i'm a little dense then lol

[konchog uma]

i was amazed when i saw them because i wasn't familiar with the absurdity of the drug advertising of that era and i thought they were worth sharing, if for no other reason, then for the outrageousness of them. they simultaneously make me laugh and create a profound sadness, and i find that interesting in itself.

 

for example the thorazine ad that claims to calm the belligerent senile!

 

or "injectable whole opium - from the juice of the poppy"

 

its just a mindfuck imagining opening a magazine and seeing an advertisement for that!

 

so my intention was just to show you something that might otherwise be missed as it is rarely seen. i suppose my motive was to amuse you, and yes hopefully you found some of those funny, although i hope that you were also touched by the sense of sensationalism exuded by the pharmaceutical industry, and maybe educated too, about drugs, advertising, human nature, etc.

[thelerner]

How long til they're showing our ads in a similar light. Particularly highlighting the end parts, side effects death dismemberment suicidal tendencies.

[konchog uma]

i just put on my 2020-goggles and see them that way right now! lol

[Mal]

i just put on my 2020-goggles

I enjoyed that :-)

 

But I thought those goggles were only for use "in hindsight"