Within just a few years of the first modern Olympic Games in Athens in 1896, souvenir cards in cigarette packs were featuring Olympic athletes...By the 1910s, Olympic athletes were paid for endorsing brands of tobacco. @UA_CSTS
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ALT Trading card featuring Frank C. Irons, Broad jumper, gold medalist, gold medalist at the 1908 London Olympic Games
ALT Reverse of Frank C. Irons tobacco trading card, sponsored by MECCA Cigarettes, 1910
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