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    Advertising has always been an interestin g way to look at history. But when you see these vintage advertisements, the past seems a lot stranger than you thought.   🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Holman's Fever & Ague & Liver Pad can rid you or malaria and "all other diseases growing out of a disordered liver." (1875)  🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 Pong was the first commercially successful video game, and it helped to establish the video game industry in the early 1970s. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻 In 1946, in response to concerns about smoking and lung cancer, the R.J. Reynolds Tobacco Company introduced a print and radio advertising campaign for its Camel cigarette brand with the slogan "More Doctors Smoke Camels." R.J. Reynolds also used celebrities to promote their brand, but while the ads mentioned celebrities by name, the doctors were never named because they could risk losing their licenses. 🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻🔻...