What's the difference between what people, or things created by people,say and what they mean? Why is that difference often so great? This blog about media,the psychology of consumer behaviour, visual communications,and the strange cultural history of advertising will investigate what things say and what they mean and what that says about the strange strange world that is us.
Wednesday, February 18, 2009
Use as Directed- It's war says Winston Man
The ad said, "I won't settle for anything less."
Alan Landers the cool 60s Winston man has battled lung cancer, and emphysema, and now a cancerous tumor on his tonsil.
A vocal opponent of the tobacco industry, he is suing RJ Reynolds for his health troubles. He regrets helping sell what he calls, "The only product when used as directed kills you."
Landers' lawsuit goes to trial in April in Palm Beach County.
"They're killers..... It's a war," he said.
Update: Alan Landers died while undergoing treatment for throat cancer on Feb 27, 2009.
May his cause live long.
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