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The "Mad Men" Files: It's Toasted
Filed under: The Squib Report Tagged: advertising, cartoons, Frank Modell, Mad Men, television
Today’s installment is courtesy of Frank Modell in the February 13, 1960, issue. Shades of the very first episode, in which Don Draper teaches the tobacco executives to reassure their addicted customers. “Smoke your cigarette,” he says. “You still have to get where you’re going.” That’s some evil stuff right there.
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Heh — I ran across that one too, recently — before I’d seen Mad Men. But I was amused to learn that most of the actors on the set don’t smoke real cigarettes. Do you suppose they’re also not drinking real whiskey?
Are the sets not lined with authentic asbestos?