The Coughin’ Collection

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The Lane Library at Stanford University has amassed a comprehensive, cool-looking, and very scary collection of cigarette advertising through history.

Not only is there this fantastic, they-don't-make-'em-like-that-anymore quality to the ads, it's worth flipping through a few categories to better understand the ingenious levels of deception that went into getting people to smoke.