The destruction in the song is surreal rather than literal
Visual design matters too: crisp typography and well-labeled sections reduce friction, letting you focus on momentum, bankroll pacing, and the thrill of discovery across a rotating catalog of titles
In fact, in the case of Silk Cut, there was nothing to tell you these were cigarette ads apart from the obligatory Government Health Warning, and, of course, the luxurious purple silk being cut in various surreal (and often threatening, occasionally possibly misogynistic) ways.* (Its interesting to compare American cigarette ads of the same period which didnt have the same restrictions and were extremely dull and unimaginative, consisting mainly of smiling moronic Americans with a cigarette in their mouths.) Cigarette ads were the main inspiration behind me wanting to work in advertising in the late 1980s (which I eventually did, briefly)
3 Another similar text messaging service, run by the National Cancer Institute, is called SmokefreeTXT, and lasts for 68 weeks
