Back in a time of leather helmets, as a football player, the early emphysema that would devour your lungs were they to tackle the cancercoupia featured in this fantastic ad from the 1940 Auburn-Clemson program was probably the last of your health concerns. Besides, doctors recommend cigarettes. (But dentists recommended Vice Roys.)

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You never see cigarette girls at throw-back games. Jay Jacobs needs to get on that.