If money is the root of all evil, and the government controls the most money and is the printer of the currency, it can then be assumed that the government is evil…hmmmmmm
Governments aside, my point was just that in the old days joe public got hooked on what they trustingly thought was a harmless remedy. Ive been addicted to morphine for years now and its not much fun at least the doctor who first gave it to me for a broken back told me that would be the outcome. My point was non-political really, just an observation.
I was born in the 2nd world war and was a victim of bombing, and was found alive under some building rubble. As a child I suffered with asthma. and was prescribed ephedrine, from an early age. Although I had this problem I went on to be quiet successful as a club racing cyclist. Then on a big drugs clampdown I found ephedrine was one of the banned drugs! So then took to Potters Asthma Cigarettes. I inhaled them, and then my chest opened and I could race again! You know what, I felt very happy after the smoke. I put it down to my relief that my chest was clear, and working. Later, I lot of young boys from a collage near to a local branch of a big British chemist chain started to go and buy Potter’s cigs, and they could because there was no tobacco in them, they where just ‘herbal’ Their chemist’s must have wondered how they could be so popular, and must have analogized them. And this chain outlawed, and banned the asthma cigarettes from all their outlets. Potters I think stopped making them. I’m now sure it was Marie J.Warner.
It’s the love of money. Not money itself.
Those ads were pretty neat though, right guys? I have always appreciated ads from another time. It is like a glimpse into the past.
What a jerk.
Definitely interesting ads, thanks for sharing them thatjerk.
@Snuff Head: Here in the States, prior to 1937 (when it was placed on the Harrison Narcotics Act) a stick of Mary Joanna was the commonly accepted cure for an asthma attack, being one of the greatest natural bronchiodilators known. Interesting, though, that you could buy it at the chemist! I wonder if we had our own asthma cigs here…
The ads were superb, politics aside. I love social history and how folks lived before. Some of the old tobacco advertising is great, y’know the ‘most Doctors smoke Camel’ type stuff - wonderful.
Snuff was also recommended by Doctors for clearing Catarrh (ie. Snot) and for mild depression, malaise, etc. Technically, all the medicines listed are still in use for various ailments. Researchers have re-discovered one medicinal herb that was outlawed for no really good reason and realise how safe and useful it is 
(It was in those Asthma cigarettes.) Miles Nervine changed it’s marketing approach and is now known as Benadryl. Dentists still inject you with Novocaine. Opiates are still the most prescribed and abused substances on the planet. Very little seems to have changed.
Nice ads, thanks for posting. I had this in my pic folder: 
@Jari T Hmmm. Could have used that on my last customer Tuesday evening.
@Mr_Snuffypants: Heh, too bad it doesn’t come in a spray can. Or perhaps it does?