The stock in trade of this award - winning
1960s ad industry TV drama is moral ambiguity, perhaps as much of a hook as the smoking and drinking and skirt - chasing that titillate the show's audience.
In the
1960s when the FCC required stations to run counter advertisements (under the Fairness Doctrine) every time an
ad for cigarettes was played, the broadcasting
industry soon agreed to legislation prohibiting all smoking
ads, since the alternative was to run one