10 Astonishing Vintage Christmas Ads You Have to See to Believe

Because nothing says Christmas like a carton of cigarettes and a case of beer

Cross promotional ad for Chesterfield cigarettes and the film “Hong Kong” starring Ronald Reagan, 1952 (public domain)

A carton of cigarettes standing in for a Christmas card may seem strange today, but in the not too distant past, it was a thing. When tobacco companies were maintaining the fiction that cigarettes were good for you, nobody…