Auto magnate Henry Ford was vehemently opposed to smoking. In 1914 he published The Case Against the Little White Slaver, a book about the evils of cigarettes. Mr. Ford felt that boys should be given reasons not to smoke, and he began his book with a letter from his friend Thomas Edison. While doing research to develop his electric light bulb, Mr. Edison found that when burned, the paper the cigarette tobacco was wrapped in formed the harmful substance Acrolein. Edison felt that Acrolein caused a permanent "degeneration of the cells of the brain," and went on to state that he wouldn't employ anyone who smoked cigarettes. The well dressed Liggett & Myers Tobacco Company salesman pictured below is posed with his Ford truck in front of the new and picturesque state capital building in Madison, Wisconsin. Mr. Ford couldn't control what signs were painted on his Model T trucks once they were sold, or how the vehicles were to be used. However, as much as Henry Ford liked to sell his Model T's, I doubt that a sale to any tobacco manufacturer would have made him smile.