It wasnt until college that I realized how widespread smoking was (still is)
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Ads for the cigarettes often featured precise measurements of tar content in milligrams, calculations that had been made by testing the cigarettes on robotic smoking machines
On Australian websites, tobacco products may only be advertised using an image of a health warning, plus the product name, company and weight of the product