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Originally Posted by Hera
The Greatest Generation! I think nowadays we're all more skeptical about both advertising and whatever the medical establishment tells us. And maybe bc Chemda didn't go to public school (? I don't think??) she never learned about this in the '90s.
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I do think that we as a culture are more skeptical, but not because we are more sophisticated. It is because we have been lied to by bullshit advertising like Apia posted and after enough people died and the companies were sued into oblivion the truth finally came out. I would be willing to bet that Chemda's private school did have some education program, but it was similar to the limp-wristed, corporate sponsored, bullshit that I heard in the public school. Mainly, because RJ Reynolds had poison to sell and all they would allow is "you better cut down" speeches, not "This is fucking you" speeches. That didn't come till later.