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Episode 259 - Meet Adam Curtis, Establishment Contrarian

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What Is on All American Coins?

Edward Bernays persuaded a group of rich debutants to hide cigarettes under their clothes. He then informed the press that he had heard that a group of suffragettes were preparing to protest by lighting up the vacal torches of freedom. The next day, this was not just in all of the New York papers, it was across the United States and around the world. And from that point forward, the sale of cigarettes to women began to rise.

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