It satirizes how smoking glamorized in conjunction with (fictional) Wild West lifestyles serves as a marketing tool for Big Tobacco. The reference to smoking Jesse Helms and describing Flavor Country as a 'racket' are obvious pokes at the industry.
@cameronwg5 Oh, also the line about Jessie James looking baffled by modern smoking habits. Tobacco was never grown in the wild west, it was a valuable commodity that people used sparingly. Lung cancer only became epidemic after cigarette production was industrialized and smoking was sold as a lifestyle.
@cameronwg5 Oh, also the line about Jessie James looking baffled by modern smoking habits. Tobacco was never grown in the wild west, it was a valuable commodity that people used sparingly. Lung cancer only became epidemic after cigarette production was industrialized and smoking was sold as a lifestyle.
It satirizes how smoking glamorized in conjunction with (fictional) Wild West lifestyles serves as a marketing tool for Big Tobacco. The reference to smoking Jesse Helms and describing Flavor Country as a 'racket' are obvious pokes at the industry.
@cameronwg5 Oh, also the line about Jessie James looking baffled by modern smoking habits. Tobacco was never grown in the wild west, it was a valuable commodity that people used sparingly. Lung cancer only became epidemic after cigarette production was industrialized and smoking was sold as a lifestyle.
@cameronwg5 Oh, also the line about Jessie James looking baffled by modern smoking habits. Tobacco was never grown in the wild west, it was a valuable commodity that people used sparingly. Lung cancer only became epidemic after cigarette production was industrialized and smoking was sold as a lifestyle.