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Smoking tobacco can indeed be fatal, but before that was figured out, the ads for cigarettes were wild. Here's taking a look at how things were before it all changed 50 years ago today, in 1964.

You can see the full extent of the damage over at Stanford's research website looking into the impacts of tobacco advertising. Go back in time in this gallery below:

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