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Originally Posted by JLange
Did the American Tobacco Company deliberately target minors with T206 and other tobacco cards, or was this just an unintended consequence of a successful marketing campaign that was targeted at adults? It seems at best this craze resulted in children hounding smokers for their cards, and even buying cigarettes themselves just for the cards, but at worst it may have resulted in many kids buying and trying tobacco for the first time and becoming life long smokers themselves.
Maybe Wagner saw this as deliberate targeting of minors and wanted no part of it?
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This was happening in the 1880's but maybe not to the same degree.
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