Anyone remember "cigarette commercials?...I remember just one..

[Stuart G]

"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should"........................I had better check you tube....?

yep...here are a few.....................................haven't looked at them yet... interesting..????

[MaryMagdaline]

1. I smoked winstons as a child ... thanks Madison Avenue

[Golden Raisin]

2. If one is of a certain vintage (like me), of course.

Also in billboards, newspapers and glossy, color print ads in leading magazines featuring doctors (real or not) recommending various brands of cigarettes to their patients. Totally different world back then.

[Afromania]

3. country soft, country fresh taste.. really? talk about misleading

[elleng]

4. Walk a mile!

[CentralMass]

7. Unfortunately they killed him.

[Aristus]

39. A rare example in which I would have rooted for the cigarettes.

He was a foul human being...

[CentralMass]

41. I never could get my self to say "fortunately it killed them" about anyone.

[MyOwnPeace]

5. Old TV "star"

Herb Shriner - would walk out, stare at the audience for about 3-5 seconds, then say "Hello" and the audience would crack up!

Never got that

His sponsor was Chesterfield cigarettes, and they had women wearing white stockings and a "box' looking like a pack of Chesterfields dancing across the stage.

Early TV was amazing stuff!

[Stuart G]

12. See dancing "Old Gold" packages in post number 11...(first of many)

[mr_lebowski]

16. I recall seeing some kind of game show type thing where the host & players/guests were all puffin'

away like it was nothing ... pretty sure it was early 60's or maybe late 50's.

[Stuart G]

6. More old TV commercials...

Say you were born in 1960...maybe you remember as a kid....

[NNadir]

59. The micronite filter in Kent cigarettes was asbestos. Wow, a double wammy!

[dchill]

8. Come to where the flavor is...

Come to Marlboro country.

[dchill]

9. Show us your Lark pack!

[dchill]

10. L.S.M.F.T.

Lucky Strike...

[MyOwnPeace]

18. Lucky Strike

Means Fine Tobacco!

[Stuart G]

11. More...some cigar commercials, one cigarette lighter commercial..

[lunamagica]

13. The Malboro Man. He was the pucture of vigor. Pure perfect health

Poor guy died of cancer

[CentralMass]

19. Apparently at least 4 Marlboro men suffered that fate.

http://www.latimes.com/nation/nationnow/la-na-nn-marlboro-men-20140127-story.html

[lunamagica]

22. Such irony. So tragic for these men

[Laffy Kat]

64. Remember the movie "Thank You for Smoking"? nt

[dhol82]

28. That was what I smoked - when I smoked

Started with the red box and then went to Marlboro Lights.
Thankfully, I have not smoked in forty years. Took me a full year to finally stop. This was before all the aids and I had to go cold turkey. It was one of the toughest things I did.

[lunamagica]

31. I don't know if this is true, but I heard that it's harder to quit cigarrets than to quit

heroin.

[dhol82]

32. Have not a clue. What I do know is

that it is more difficult for women to quit cigarettes because of their fat distribution.
Nicotine lodges in fat. Women naturally have a higher percentage of fat than men.
Makes it a bitch to quit.
When I see young women puffing away I want to grab them and shake the idiocy out. They just don’t understand the difficulty they will have later.

[FuzzyRabbit]

34. Harder to quit cigarettes than heroin?

I recall reading years ago that it is harder to quit cigarettes.

[kwassa]

38. Quitting smoking is easy, I've done it hundreds of times.

[LeftInTX]

40. I had no trouble quitting

But everyone is different.

I kept having negative reactions to smoking. Sore/dry throat etc. The reactions were fairly immediate, so it was easy for me to quit. I would get sick and quit. Then, I would get well, smoke and get sick again. So, I got fed up and quit.

I originally smoked to be cool. Later, I did it when I was nervous, but I could have replaced it with any other type of nervous habit. (Such as doodling)

[Iggo]

47. True enough.

From what I've seen, though, I'd put it another way:

When you get to the point where you're quitting, it's easier to not quit cigs than to not quit heroin.

[Phentex]

49. I remembered something about horses...

that music does sound familiar.

[CentralMass]

15. A Beverly Hillbillies cigarette commercial.

[malthaussen]

51. Was very typical to have TV actors advertising ciggies as part of the show...

... even Fred and Barney were sucking on them.

... as I see appears downthread.

They did beer commercials, too.

-- Mal

[kimbutgar]

17. Youve come a long way baby - Virginia Slims

I remember all those glamorous women smoking in beautiful clothes. My sister used to smoke Virginia slims and there was a coupon on the pack that if you collected enough you could get a calendar or tote bag. My sister always ordered one for me. I came across it the other day. Every page had a picture of a model in a beautiful outfit smoking a cigarette.

[Stuart G]

20. How about Lucy and Desi ....Phillip Morris...

[Stuart G]

21. "More Doctors smoke Camel than any other Cigarette..(yes, !!!more doctors...???)

no, I did not make this up...play it and watch


https://www.youtube.com/watch/?v=WI25DmCoWvI

[Shrike47]

23. Call for Phillip Morris! Ads on TV I did not understand as a child.

[Ptah]

24. Flintstones!

[brewens]

25. The last ever Veronica Hamill who played the DA in Hill Street Blues. A Virginia Slims

ad shown on The Tonight Show. I Googled something about that show awhile back and that popped up too.

[LeftInTX]

37. Interesting bit of trivia!

[Eliot Rosewater]

26. And the Winston one is incorrect grammar.

Tobacco companies have a special place in hell, if there was a hell.

[NBachers]

27. Joe Friday's partner got shot in Dragnet. Joe & the partner's wife bring cigarettes to the hospital.

They meet at the elevator - each one has a carton of cigarettes for him to smoke up in the hospital.

I also used to think that those Christmas decoration cartons of cigarettes were pretty lame. Who buys a carton of cigarettes and gives it as a Christmas gift?

My mom, a lifelong smoker, died of cancer. It advanced so quickly that there wasn't much we could do. In her final days, she was still smoking in the hospital. What's the sense of forcing her to quit if she's going to die anyway?

[dhol82]

30. Back in the 50s and 60s it was a gift giving thing

With the Christmas themed packaging it was an easy gift for someone you knew who smoked.

[Freddie]

57. My grandpa owned a cigar store

In a small town in central PA. Had a lunch counter, made milkshakes and ice cream sodas, sold cigars and cigarettes, with pool tables in the back. He gave those festive holiday cartons of cigarettes to all his friends and neighbors.

[Leith]

29. Yes, Of Course

I remember them so well that when I saw the first Indiana Jones movie, it struck me that the theme was almost the same as the Kent cigarette song. You need to hear only the first 20 seconds:

[SCantiGOP]

42. Kent was the first "low tar" cigarette

All that meant was it had small holes around the filter so the smoke coming into your lungs was diluted.

They really liked using the doctors and athletes to show how macho and healthy it was. I can remember an ad showing Arnold Palmer, the most respected and popular golfer in the country, where he would hunch over a putt, calmly sink a 40 footer and then walk over and pick up his lit cigarette from the edge of the green where he had dropped it before the putt.

[jmowreader]

44. Kent is infamous for its asbestos filters

https://www.asbestos.com/products/general/cigarette-filters.php

From 1952 to 1956, Lorillard used compressed blue asbestos - one of the most dangerous forms - as the filter media in Kent cigarette filters.

[dhol82]

62. OMG!

Did anybody do a study about what happened to their client base?
Might have been the reason they changed the formula.

[jmowreader]

63. Public pressure from their competitors forced the switch

http://www.greensboro.com/news/local_news/lawsuits-continue-over-asbestos-in-kent-cigarette-filters/article_845c79ce-e028-5a14-a521-5a5fc66e0e4a.html

Kent seems to be a unique cigarette - in that the lawsuits against them are not only coming from smokers, but from people who made the filters and people who worked in the cigarette plants. You've got to work at it to come up with a cigarette that kills people who DIDN'T smoke it.

[dhol82]

66. Interesting.

I see the ads for the lawyers doing the litigation but never is Kent mentioned.
Had no idea that the filter ever existed as a harmful agent.

[FuzzyRabbit]

33. Yech!

I remember from my younger days how awful it tasted to kiss a smoker.

[Dave Starsky]

35. Kent, with the Micronite filter!

What was "Micronite"? Why, asbestos, of course!

[LeftInTX]

36. We had fun changing the lyrics:

"Winston tastes bad like the one I just had. No filter. No flavor. Just GD toilet paper."

[Major Nikon]

43. Arthur Godfrey got into the game. Skip to 20:30

[Rhiannon12866]

45. "I'd rather fight than switch!"

[Iggo]

46. "You can take Salem out of the country, but...

...you can't take the country out of Salem. "

[DFW]

48. My grandfather was even responsible for one of them

"Dual Filter Tareyton" They switched ad agencies before they came out with the "I'd rather fight than switch" campaign.

Growing up poor in New York City (the grandson of Mississippi Riverboat gamblers who fled north to escape their debts), he lived mostly by his wits, and those wits eventually landed him a job with a Madison Avenue advertising agency. Anyone remember Smirnoff Vodka's "It Leaves You Breathless" or Pepto Bismol's "Quick As A Wink, You're In The Pink?" Those were my grandfather's inventions, too.

During LBJ's "war on poverty" he said he would start a "war on puberty, in order to stop the copulation explosion."

Later, at age 99, he sent out a Christmas card with a photo of himself, looking very much his age, encaptioned "Compliments of the Seasoned."

My favorite cigarette commercial of all time was one for a brand that never existed in the first place:

[malthaussen]

50. Pardon my grammar, but...

"Winston tastes good as a cigarette should."

It's actually comforting to me to know there were grammar Nazis in the '70s.

To clarify (although I hate explaining jokes): by 1970, the grammar controversy about Winston's slogan had become so big that they did an ad campaign asking "What do you want, good grammar or good taste?" It replaced the old slogan permanently from 1972 until advertising was discontinued on TV.

-- Mal

[tblue37]

52. LSMFT: LUCKY STRIKE means fine tobacco. nt

[malthaussen]

53. "Lucky Strike: It's Toasted!"

Re-introduced on Mad Men, Luckies actually started using that slogan in 1917, and went through several before introducing the iconic "LSMFT" in 1945.

-- Mal

[hlthe2b]

54. Marlborough Man... But it was Virginia Slims that gave women athletes a break, ironically enough

I loved seeing the women tennis players on the Viriginia Slims ciricuit. Prior to that, they made essentially nothing compared to the men.

Ironic, yes...

I'm just grateful I never smoked... I tried it a handful of times, usually when drinking, but if I was stone cold sober, uggh, I found the smell nauseating. Which made it tough all those years when people could smoke ANYWHERE>

[redstatebluegirl]

55. The Marlborough Man.

It made my mom crazy that I thought he was hot.

[Eugene]

56. Benson & Hedges - America's favorite cigarette break

[BBbats]

58. Smoking was acceptable social behavior in the 50's & 60's.

I sent my early childhood(late 50's/early 60's) in my grandparent's house. Both of them smoked & so did all my aunt's & uncle's.Grandpop smoked a pipe & cigars,Grandmom smoked unfiltered Camels.My mom smoked Marlboro's.I used to buy their smokes for them at the corner store when I was 6 years old.Tobacco advertising was everywhere.I started when I was 12. My folks were upset at 1st but I was allowed to smoke openly when I was 15.Some High schools even had smoking lounge s for students(mine didn't).I think the 18 year old sales laws were on the books but were not enforced.Anybody could buy cigarettes.
I tell people under 40 how smoking was acceptable everywhere in the 50's to 80's & they are amazed. Especially the smokers!
I quit a long time ago(when I was 22).I did start a 2nd time when I was 30 but nipped it in the bud quickly. My grandparents & mother died young from smoking.I'd be dead by now if I didn't quit.

[Codeine]

61. In the 80s our high school

had a smoking area. That’s a weird thing to me in retrospect.

[red dog 1]

60. "You get a lot to light with a Marlboro, filter, flavor, pack or box"

(Earlier version)
"You get a lot to light with a Marlboro, filter, flavor, flip-top box"


I started smoking Parliament cigarettes when I was 12
(at boarding school...high school-aged schoolmates sold us cigarettes for 50 cents a pack back in the late '50s)

I later switched to Marlboro, and didn't quit until I was 16 because I wanted to be able to buy a car.& couldn't afford both cigarettes and a car)
By the time I quit, I was smoking a pack a day

[kentuck]

65. Newports

...by the swimming pool.

[TuxedoKat]

67. You've Come a Long Way, Baby

Can't believe no one's posted that one yet!