Imagine how high Cobb prices would be if this trend had continued

[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?

[Pat R]

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?

This was happening in the 1880's but maybe not to the same degree.

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[JLange]

Those are some spectacular hobby stories! Thanks for sharing!

[Leon]

Some more that Patrick found..the first ones were sort of small, sorry about that.

[Pat R]

Here's another nice Cobb article

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[GasHouseGang]

I was surprised this Old Mill ad said that you get two cards per pack. It seems that it was usually only 1 per pack in most of the examples I've seen for other brands.

[Pat R]

Originally Posted by GasHouseGang

I was surprised this Old Mill ad said that you get two cards per pack. It seems that it was usually only 1 per pack in most of the examples I've seen for other brands.

David, The Hindu ads state two cards (pictures) per pack (box) too.

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