5. Cigarettes: This sounds healthy right? Smoking was a VERY heavily marketing concept for many years. The claim was that smoking would not only make you look cool but would also curb your appetite.
Check out these ladies losing weight! No, they are actually just smoking… and probably not losing any weight at all.
6. Music: Medical expert Wallace M. Rogerson believed that specially tuned music would literally just burn your pounds away! If he only thought of making a dance track to his recordings, he may have actually helped people shed a few pounds.
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7. Rubber Corsets: A corset didn’t help with weight goals, but it did hurt guts and crush rib cages! They did make you look thin though…
8. Soap: Yup, with this idea all you have to do is take a shower!!! Company “La-Mar Reducing Soap” actually said, “Wash away fat and years of age.” Nice ad right?
