Sunday Silliness: reach for a Swisher, not a sweet edition

8 June 2008

It’s easy to think that this is a creation of Photoshop, but once upon a time, the tobacco industry enlisted the help of physicians to sell its products.

Country Doctor pipe tobacco tin

The original place I found this, an eBay listing of all places, is here, at least for a while.  The title of this post is something that I am certain used to be a slogan for Swisher Sweets (an Ohio business originally, interestingly), but I can’t actually find any proof of this anywhere on the Internet.



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