Jazz and modern smoking

(this post is part of our Modern Living series, for more info follow this link)

Dutch magazine ad from 1939; connecting jazz, modern and American. 

Not only is the cigarette brand presented as modern, it's a "modern American" cigarette. Stressing the fact that this is an imported cigarette is quite unusual in the 1930s in the Netherlands as only a few years earlier (1933) a government funded campaign was launched to promote buying Dutch products.

More about the connection between jazz and smoking later, for now I just want to share the picture, which I think is quite striking in it's use of colour. 

Jazz cigarettes, Panorama, Aug 10, 1939

 P.S. I cannot find any information about this particular brand - any and all information is welcome.