Description
Black and white 5 1/2″ x 13 1/2″ ad for Bond Street Pipe Tobacco. The ad has a picture that shows a lady who is very angrily about to take a hammer to her man’s smoking pipe as he anxiously rushes towards her as the headline states “WAIT, LADY! Don’t Blame his Pipe…It’s his tobacco that won’t meet the INDOOR TEST”. The ad then says that you should “Call Bond Street to the rescue – quick. It’s genuinely aromatic. Delightfully fragrant. Leaves no stale pipe odors in the room. Wins even the ladies praises! The Indoor Test proves it! Smokers by the thousands are switching to BOND STREET – because it’s mild – like a custom blend. Truly bite-free…and doesn’t lose its flavor. BOND STRET contains a rare aromatic tobacco never before used in any popular priced mixture”. The ad then claims that you could buy it for 15 cents for a Pocket Tin.
Source: August 10, 1942 Life magazine.
