Choosing a Cigarette in Shanghai – Not So Easy

When you peruse  an old Chinese newspaper or magazine, looks at all those old Shanghai calendar girl posters, gaze at old photos of Shanghai’s streets ever noticed just how many cigarette ads you see – and just how many brands seemed to be competing for the consumer? Hundreds. Well, that’s because it was totally crazy with so many competing brands…according to this short article, over a thousand brands in 1933…