Some outdated facts...

Can you imagine that many of the fad's which we follow now like Cigs being bad for health where actually promoted amongst public in the mid 20th century.. I found that interesting. What caught my interest was that these things where popular as recent as 1950 - 1960 period, which is the life and times of maximum 2 generations prior..

While in school I remember learning that population growth was the bane of India, because of which all typical problems happened here. "High population" was the topic of so many debates and root causes and always helped in adding some extra papers for school exam papers. Now population or demography is the Indian advantage, Availability of labor, young working population is touted as the next big thing for India to become super power by 2050!..Countries like Japan, Singapore, European countries etc with fast dimishing populations are supposed to be on demographic decline & the govt. rewards the family for bringing up more number of kids !! whatever happened to the " We are One, we need one" campaign..

Many such facts and fads that people swear by now, gets overwritten in just 20 years! is n't that timeline really fast..

 

Here are some ad posters of the 1930's - 1960's.. Santa Claus promoting Cigs :)... how about TV being good for Children ?? A company," Camel" even interviewed 113,595 doctors in 1950's and claims that majority of the respondents promoted their product.Now not a single doctor or an affaliated organization will go on record promoting smoking.

How about cocaine in drug stores... I guess there was trust and general goodness feeling in those days, that people knew their limits. Even now many drugs are used as pain killers and during operations, but strictly under doctor supervision

There was this instance of US postal service, delivering mail through rockets :).. fore runner of the email..:)This happened in the 1930's, through the regulus missile, typical of many government investments large sums where invested to launch missile mail, till a brainy person realized that wrong deliveries and explosions and cargo hazards may also become popular :). This was promoted as peace time use of Missiles.

 There are so many funda’s that our generation swears by.. Green Tea Fads, right BMI ( Body Mass Index), Yoga as the fitness mantra, Organic Food concept and so many more.

Who knows, may be the next generation may prove these wrong too!!