Vintage photos and vintage postcards provided some great wisdom back when they were popular. I thought we might take a look back with great thanks to the California girl who sent these to me.

Vintage postcards made people think. They also made people smile. As one of the cards states below, laughter is the medicine of life. With that in mind, enjoy these vintage photos and contemplate the sayings.

More Vintage Photos on the Internet

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Cpaphil Vintage Postcards: Henry VIII Plants Cherries – Great vintage postcards…. Beautiful child….but I love the Henry VIII postcard best….love the intense colors. Oh and, Marie….I have tagged you over on my blog. http://robinsbluenest.typepad.com. Hope your day has been beautiful. …

Smoking is bad for you, right? Well, it ain’t always been so. Matter of fact, smoking used to be desired. It solved all sorts of problems. Of course, back then we didn’t have a Surgeon General who studied all the harmful effects.

Even Ronald Reagan, long before he was President of the United States, did TV commercials and print ads for Chesterfields.

Today there are numerous websites that portray smoking as sexy even though consensus opinion in the United States is that smoking is bad and only evil things come from smoking. So, let’s take a look at advertising from the past.

Wooooooooooie, pig sooooooooooie! They throw up a hot chick telling you how wonderful things are when you smoke. And you know us guys! We’re gonna do it if it makes a girl like us better.

Ronald Reagan, who later became President of the United States, promoted Chesterfield cigarettes. In fact, he said he was sending cigarettes as Christmas gifts. Who could resist the beautiful Christmas Card carton? I would say ‘Holy Smokes’ but that would seem a might … well, nevermind, I can’t think of the word.

Even the medical folks touted cigarette smoking. More doctors smoked Camels. I wonder if this is like the commercials you see today about More Dentists Do This and More Nurses Do That. Well, I ain’t seen no nurse commercials that I remember but, then again, I just might have been so taken with other things I didn’t hear what they were saying.

Hey Mom, Grad a cigarette before you even think about scolding me. It’ll help you calm down. And you’ll never feel over-smoked due to the Miracle of Marlboro. It’s a dadblame miracle, ain’t it, that smoking didn’t become popular and kill everybody. Yeah, right. I saw a commerical just last night about some drug to reduce the number of "cycles" a woman has from once a month to once a quarter, but it said something like the drug would kill you if you smoked. And I’m still trying to understand the connection between smoking and a woman’s cycle.