How amazing is this Camel ad from a 1936 Life Magazine.

Don't worry, we are going to chop this up frame by frame and you will learn all about how you should smoke like a danged locomotive all throughout Thanksgiving dinner to ... *checks notes* ... aid digestion. 😆

Let's e n h a n c e and analyze:

It's for digestion's sake, people. Just be healthy and don't ask questions.

That's right, in between helpings of turkey you need to smoke a cig. Ease that tension. Digestive fluids or something. Alkalinity. SMOKE YOU FOOL!

Eat a salad and then smoke another square. Do it! Clear your palate (rofl)!

SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE! SMOKE!

You are not done Thanksgiving-chiefing. After dinner Camels. Plural. Smoke another! And another!

Don't you wanna be set right??

Is it any wonder that all of our grandparents used to smoke 3 packs a day??

And then the big reminder at the bottom:

Man, what a wild ad. Different times. People just smoked liked chimneys right at the dinner table and blew their fumes right in baby and grandma's face.

But their digestion was spectacular! 😂