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The targeting of women in tobacco advertising led to higher rates of smoking among
women. In 1923 women only purchased 5% of cigarettes sold, in 1929 it increased to 12%,
in 1935 the percentage of cigarettes purchased by women was 18.1%, this percentage
peaked in 1965 at 33.3% and remained at this level until 1977.
[Source: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torches_of_Freedom]

Observed in this example is the basic pattern used by a global elite today to shape the public
opinion of the masses. News events are staged, and interpretations of the events are pre-
planned in order to guide the populace to the conclusions that the invisible government
desires. Bernays has noted in his books that Democracy requires the employment of
propaganda that a ruling elite (who alone know what is best for mankind) might be able to
rule without the masses understanding that they are being controlled and manipulated.

As civilization has become more complex, and as the need for invisible government has
been increasingly demonstrated, the technical means have been invented and developed
by which opinion may be regimented...

The minority has discovered a powerful help in influencing majorities. It has been found
possible so to mold the mind of the masses that they will throw their newly gained
strength in the desired direction.
[Source: Propaganda, Edward Bernays]

Edward Bernays

The same process employed by Bernays on behalf of the American Tobacco Company is
utilized thousands of times every week by the invisible government to guide the masses in
the desired direction. In the previous chapter we read of the government inventing, or
fostering, atrocities such as the sinking of the Lusitania and the Japanese bombing of Pearl
Harbor, in order to move the masses to support the schemes of the minority. There are very
few who ever discern the invisible hand guiding their actions and shaping their opinions.
To repeat a statement penned by Bernays,

We are governed, our minds are molded, our tastes are formed, our ideas suggested,
largely by men we have never heard of. These invisible governors are a heroic elite, who