Here it is, International Women’s Day. Somewhere in the shadows is that tantalizing ad of Virginia Slims cigarettes created by the Philip Morris Tobacco company in the late sixties. A cigarette designed for women just to remind them that in the march of progress women were right up along with men as consumers. Wow! Golly! Gosh! Every female smoker dashed off to buy a pack of Virginian Slims . The husky Marlboro man for him and the slender cigarette for us. Bonus point, no puckering up line damage around the mouth. Hence the genius at the tobacco company had to be thanked. However in the jungles of Africa the tribal woman who rolled her tobacco in a leaf resembling a splif laughed her head off. She smoked pure tobacco without all the nasty tar stuffed into machine made cigarettes. Nevertheless women had come a long way said some un-travelled joker and it became a catch phrase.
You have come a long way baby!
You have come a long way baby!
You have come a long way baby!
Here it is, International Women’s Day. Somewhere in the shadows is that tantalizing ad of Virginia Slims cigarettes created by the Philip Morris Tobacco company in the late sixties. A cigarette designed for women just to remind them that in the march of progress women were right up along with men as consumers. Wow! Golly! Gosh! Every female smoker dashed off to buy a pack of Virginian Slims . The husky Marlboro man for him and the slender cigarette for us. Bonus point, no puckering up line damage around the mouth. Hence the genius at the tobacco company had to be thanked. However in the jungles of Africa the tribal woman who rolled her tobacco in a leaf resembling a splif laughed her head off. She smoked pure tobacco without all the nasty tar stuffed into machine made cigarettes. Nevertheless women had come a long way said some un-travelled joker and it became a catch phrase.