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

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Jock Phillips, Smoking – Cigarettes rule: 1900–1960, Te Ara – the Encyclopedia of New Zealand, https://teara.govt.nz/en/ephemera/38971/advertisement-for-craven-a-cigarettes (accessed 4 June 2026).

Story by Jock Phillips, published 30 November 2012.