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In 1948, a bizarre and unsettling scene unfolded in a hospital room when a cigarette mascot appeared beside a patient as part of a promotional campaign. The grinning, anthropomorphic cigarette figureintended to In 1948, a human sized cigarette mascot named Mr. Cig visited hospital patients, handing out free cigarettes. This was during a time when smoking was widely accepted and even promoted, with the tobacco I wonder if in 100 200 years people are as shocked about how we give sugar candy to kids for Halloween and treats as them giving cigarettes to patients in the hospital back Man Lights Cigarette in Unusual Hospital Scene 1948, Mr. Cig offers the tobacco industries version of last rites.

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