Ted Bates & Company
(Advertising agency for BW) Advertising agency for Brown & Williamson and other tobacco companies.Advertising agency for Brown & Williamson to help Advertising agency for Brown & Williamson (Jenkins p. 130). Wrote report which stated that there "are not any real, absolute, positive qualities and attributes in a cigarette." (Jenkins p. 130.) Ted Bates & Company was one of BWT's advertising agencies; wrote memo: "Smokers have to face the fact that they are illogical, irrational and stupid . . . The saviors are the rationalization and repression . . . " (E. Whelan 1984). Wrote memo: "Present the cigarette as one of the few initiations into the adult world" (E. Whelan 1984, p. 185).