Recently, a Florida woman won her court case against the RJ ReynoldsTobacco Company over the company’s failure to properly warn smokers of the dangerous and addictive nature of smoking, after her husband died of lung cancer.
She ended up walking out of the courthouse with a potential $23.6 billion in punitive damages. Clearly, companies in the past treated advertisements differently than they do today. Here are 17 that you’ll never see the likes of again: