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Kōrero: Smoking

Advertisement for Craven "A" cigarettes

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Advertisement for Craven "A" cigarettes

This full-page advertisement appeared in the New Zealand women's magazine the Mirror in 1930. Like many ads in the years between the two world wars, this one specifically targeted women, who were the growing market. It tried to associate smoking with sophisticated urban taste.

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Alexander Turnbull Library

Reference: The Mirror, 1 November 1930 (S-L-1137-cover)

Permission of the Alexander Turnbull Library, National Library of New Zealand, Te Puna Mātauranga o Aotearoa, must be obtained before any re-use of this image.

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Me pēnei te tohu i te whārang

Jock Phillips, Smoking – Cigarettes rule: 1900–1960, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/mi/ephemera/38971/advertisement-for-craven-a-cigarettes (accessed 25 June 2026).

He kōrero nā Jock Phillips, i tāngia i te 30 November 2012.