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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.
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Check out these ladies losing weight! No, they are actually just smoking… and probably not losing any weight at all.
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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…
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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?
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