Article: Museumfeatures tobacco ad items

Cigar ribbons, cigarette 'silkies' find spot in exhibition.

The Associated Press

NORTH NEWTON -- The Marlboro Man has retired, and cigarette billboards that once dotted the Kansas landscape are history, brought down as part of a settlement between tobacco companies and the state. But the influence tobacco advertising has had on generations of Americans still lingers in the air at Bethel College's Kauffman Museum. A new exhibition titled, "Better Choose Me: Collecting and Creating with Tobacco Fabric Novelties, 1880-1920," has tied together an extensive collection of cigar ribbons, cigarette silks, tobacco flannels and dozens of items made from tobacco flannels -- from pillow cases to robes. ...

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