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Propaganda Debunking

no more banksters

(395 posts) Wed Feb 24, 2016, 09:22 AM Feb 2016

How women started to smoke [View all]

What Bernays had created was the idea that if a woman smoked it made her more powerful and independent. An idea that still persists today. It made him realize that it was possible to persuade people to behave irrationally if you link products to their emotional desires and feelings. The idea that smoking actually made women freer, was completely irrational. But it made them feel more independent. It meant that irrelevant objects could become powerful emotional symbols of how you wanted to be seen by others.

http://failedevolution.blogspot.gr/2016/02/how-women-started-to-smoke.html

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How women started to smoke [View all] no more banksters Feb 2016 OP

"You've come a long way, baby." NV Whino Feb 2016 #1

smoking is a disgusting filthy habit saturnsring Feb 2016 #2

You can hear Bernays yourself. OnyxCollie Feb 2016 #6

living with a smoker i know 1st hand it is a disgusting and filthy habit. saturnsring Feb 2016 #9

This message was self-deleted by its author OnyxCollie Feb 2016 #10

That opinion brings so much enlightenment to this discussion. TeamPooka Sep 2019 #17

It's unreal how much it was promoted xloadiex Feb 2016 #3

and all the doctor recommendations on which smoke was most healthful rurallib Feb 2016 #4

My fave TV smoking moment was Columbo with his cigar in an elevator and no one blinked. TeamPooka Sep 2019 #16

Hear Bernays in his own words. OnyxCollie Feb 2016 #5

Thanks! no more banksters Feb 2016 #7

You're welcome. OnyxCollie Feb 2016 #8

My mother told me Curmudgeoness Feb 2016 #11

All anyone really need do is read SheilaT Mar 2016 #12

Also breathing second hand smoke will lead you to smoke. I know demigoddess Jun 2019 #13

And while smoking pretty much never shows up in TV shows any more, PoindexterOglethorpe Jun 2019 #14

Soldiers and sailors on both sides were issued cigarettes during the war captain queeg Aug 2019 #15

There was a time, which lasted to the mid or late '60s, PoindexterOglethorpe Sep 2019 #18