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Comment by 8bitsrule

2 days ago

Thanks to the dedicated work of Edward Bernays... nephew of Sigmund Freud ... and the Creel Committee

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Committee_on_Public_Informatio...

When Lucky Strike needed more women to smoke cigarettes in the late 1920s, it turned to Bernays.

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