# \]When did Time Magazine start back with showing people smoking in print ads? **URL:** \ **Category:** Factual Questions\ **Created:** [September 23, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-time-magazine-start-back-with-showing-people-smoking-in-print-ads/265761 "2004-09-23T21:45:01Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 8\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 23, 2004, 9:45pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-time-magazine-start-back-with-showing-people-smoking-in-print-ads/265761/1 "2004-09-23T21:45:01Z")
When did Time Magazine start back with showing people smoking in print ads? I was a little surprised by this pic, but maybe I’ve missed the other stuff. Is this a new policy or am I slow on the uptake re noticing this? [Here is pic of the ad in question.](http://mywebpages.comcast.net/cpeek001/camel4.JPG) ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-time-magazine-start-back-with-showing-people-smoking-in-print-ads/265761/2 "2004-09-24T03:09:51Z")
I guess first I’d like to see a link to a Time magazine cite. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:12am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-time-magazine-start-back-with-showing-people-smoking-in-print-ads/265761/3 "2004-09-24T03:12:50Z")
If you’re going to allow cigarette ads in your magazine, why would you care whether the people in the ads are smoking the cigarettes? What else are cigarettes for? ---
**Author:** ![gazpacho](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/6f9a4e/32.png) [@gazpacho](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gazpacho)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-time-magazine-start-back-with-showing-people-smoking-in-print-ads/265761/4 "2004-09-24T03:16:12Z")
> [@Walloon](#): > > If you’re going to allow cigarette ads in your magazine, why would you care whether the people in the ads are smoking the cigarettes? What else are cigarettes for? Vice laws are notoriously wacky. I believe that you are not allowed to show people drinking beer in beer commercials on TV, in the US. I mean it is not like the beer companies are promoting beer as good for your house plants. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-time-magazine-start-back-with-showing-people-smoking-in-print-ads/265761/5 "2004-09-24T03:23:07Z")
> [@samclem](#): > > I guess first I’d like to see a link to a Time magazine cite. It’s a picture from this week’s issue, distributed in the Maryland region. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 3:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-time-magazine-start-back-with-showing-people-smoking-in-print-ads/265761/6 "2004-09-24T03:29:33Z")
In googling it’s apparent I’m late to the party as this campaign has been going on for well over a year. [From a January 16, 2003 article](http://www.dissidentvoice.org/Articles/Solomon_MixedMessages.htm) > [@](#): > > We may feel that it’s nice of America’s largest-circulation news weeklies to print so much healthful information. But if you picked up the previous week’s Time and turned past the cover, the first thing you saw was a two-page layout for Camels, with the heading “Pleasure to Burn.” > > Like the multi-entendre slogan, the ad’s graphic is inviting; a handsome guy, presumably quite debonaire as he stands next to a liquor shelf, lights up a cigarette as he eyes the camera. ---
**Author:** ![Walloon](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/w/fbc32d/32.png) [@Walloon](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Walloon)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 4:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-time-magazine-start-back-with-showing-people-smoking-in-print-ads/265761/7 "2004-09-24T04:36:54Z")
> [@gazpacho](#): > > Vice laws are notoriously wacky. Except that’s not a law. It’s an industry self-regulation. ---
**Author:** ![samclem](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/a9a28c/32.png) [@samclem](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/samclem)\ **Post date:** [September 24, 2004, 5:17am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/when-did-time-magazine-start-back-with-showing-people-smoking-in-print-ads/265761/8 "2004-09-24T05:17:51Z")
> [@astro](#): > > It’s a picture from this week’s issue, distributed in the Maryland region. Sorry to be dense. Is it only in the MD area issues, or National?