Old cigarette commercials

they stopped advertising smokes, and booze. years ago.

why in living hell can't they stop telling you to ask you doctor about some cockamamied named drug for your cancer or heart problems or other shit you have no idea about but yeah, right, ask your doctor about this fucking medicine.... the side effects for all this shit is worse if you just did nothing and died.

i hate these commercials.

I have at least 5 jingles in my head from those commercials in my youth. I am an ex-smoker ,btw.

Come to Marlboro country...

This thread brought to mind this anti-cigarette commercial from when I was under 10 (born in 1963). I became aware that I was gay at puberty (13/14?), but I can remember thinking the Dad was kind of special!

Lark

Lark

MMMM - Newport Lights used to be my favored brand way, way back when a pack could be hacked for one to two bucks.

The Lark go-along.....

Winston tastes good like a cigarette should!

Benson & Hedges

I have almost enough Raleigh coupons for an iron lung!

Yul Brynner weighs in.

[quote]they stopped advertising smokes, and booze. years ago.

Seriously? Alcohol (other than wine and beer) was NEVER allowed to be advertised on broadcast TV. But it's still heavily advertised on cable.

How would Winston taste though a corncob pipe?

Give your family cancer for Christmas!

I love the old ads where they had singers hawking their cigs.

I remember two women in Old Gold Cigarette boxes with drum majorette boots. And an ad with the voice-over "Do Say DuMaurier."

R9, English teachers across the country went nuts .... the line should have been "Winston tastes good AS a cigarette should."

The best cigarette commercials were Virginia Slims from the late 60's.

Cigars, cigarettes, Tiparillos?

I remember an ad with the line, "Taste me, taste me, come on and taste me..." It was very suggestive.

Is this ad real?

Dorals, r21, and no, it's not real, r22.

I'd rather fight than switch!

My parents used to smoke these, and yes, they were the cool parents:

Told ya we were hardcore smokers.....

R21 - "Taste me, taste me, come on and taste me..."

Take a puff and let me do my stuff!

Oh that's the wrong link for Kool cigarettes:

dear r13 wine and beer ARE ALCOHOL. Beer is generally composed of malted barley and/or wheat and wine is made using fermented grapes. The above two have low alcohol content. So, while being alcoholic drinks they aren't included in the general definition of 'Liquor'.

Liquor ads did not appear on any TV, national or local, for much of the 20th century, with the industry honoring a self-imposed ban from 1948 to 1996. Crown Royal, then owned by Seagram, broke the seal that year with a spot that aired in Corpus Christie, Texas. A growing number of TV affiliates have begun taking ads in recent years, and marketers have found more opportunities on cable networks such as Comedy Central, E! and ESPN. Cable still gets more than 90% of the spending, according to Kantar.

But the new acceptance from broadcast networks is a victory for the spirits industry, which has sought parity with beer and wine since it lifted the ban.

[quote]The above two have low alcohol content. So, while being alcoholic drinks they aren't included in the general definition of 'Liquor'.

And they're not included in the general definition of "booze," either; hence my response.

Silva Thins

The Silva Thins man reminds me of Max Headroom. Creepy.

I was six in early 1971 so I don't really remember the cigarette ads, although I have some vague memories, perhaps false, of women's cigarette brands proclaiming that women now had the equal right to get lung cancer just like men.

Apparently at the end of last year a court ordered that cigarettes be permitted to be advertised on TV again. Wonderful.

R33 I believe that was the Virginia Slims (targeted at women) slogan: You've Come A Long Way, Baby.

Quite possible r33. I remember it was a young fit woman living her best life with a tube of burning leaves dangling from her mouth.

An early anti smoking at called Johnny Smoke with a narrator that sounds like Darth Vader.

You've come a long way baby,

To get where youve got to today,

Youve got your own cigarette now baby,

Youve come a long long way!

You can take Salem out of the country but... You cant take the country out of Salem.

The Duke.....

Benson & Hedges were the cigarettes for classy people.

I agree r1, it seems one is always urged to "see your doctor" and "ask your doctor" as if it is all a matter of such "urgency". Just one more component in the effort to brainwash people into being dumb sheep who are always anxious and looking somewhere for the answer, which is also why religion is such a racket.

L and M filters "over, under, around and through to give you fine tobacco smoking pleasure". "Winston tastes good like a cigarette should"--later on they tried to make hay out of supposed grammarians saying it should be "as" a cigarette should. They had further commercials asking the question "WHAT DO YOU WANT, GOOD GRAMMAR OR GOOD TASTE", as if it were an either/or choice. Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch. I think Doral had ads that had a dancing cigarette pack singing "taste me, taste me, c'mon and taste me"--there was a kid in high school who used to walk around the halls singing "taste me". I am a gay male, 64 years old, never even tried a cigarette in my entire life, yet I recall all these cig ads mainly because they were so inane. And then there was Johnny Roventini bellowing "CALL FOR PHILIP MORRRAYYYISSSS". Before the Marlboro Man their ad jingle was "you get a lot to like with a Marlboro, filter, flavor, pack or box".

A good friend of mine smoked Virginia Slims. I would bum one off of her every once in a while, and they tasted like puffing on hot air, there was nothing to them.

You can take Salem out of the country but...

I also remember a radio commercial with Sandler & Young singing about some brand I can't remember.

come up to the Cool taste. Come up to Cools. Come up to the Cool taste. You've never had it so Cool.

then there was the magazine ad "Nobody's lower than Carlton" (low tar content?) and when my grandparents got into a huge drunken argument over my grandfather flirting with some young dame my grandmother picked up the magazine, pointed at the ad, and said, "You are!"

IIRC,New Year's Eve, 1970 was the last day for ciggie ads on TV.

The lowest price I remember for a pack of cigarettes was the local (S.F.) Rexall-$.33 (ca. 1965)

R22 My cousin smoked Marlboro Reds through three pregnancies...no complications (not an endorsement) My mom couldn't be anywhere near them when she was pregnant-but it was the first thing she asked for after I was hatched, legend has it. Hehe.

The Johnny Smoke and the This Is Life PSAs are strong in childhood memory-but I can't think of a time in recent memory when I've seen an anti-smoking PSA. Don't they make them anymore?

Virginia Slims ad compilation...I Am Woman, Hear Me Hack.

r20, I do remember that commercial and it was one of the better ones I think--it is *so* early to mid 1960s in style and delivery. Another bunch of commercials not unrelated in style are the ones Edie Adams did for Muriel cigars--sort of fun, offbeat, almost happy and even a pleasure to watch. It almost made one want to try cigars. Her husband, Ernie Kovacs, had a comedy/variety show that sort of prototyped "Laugh-In," several years later and was brought by Muriel and (not entirely sure about this) White Owl cigars, which he often smoked while his show was being taped. I don't think either brand is available today for some odd reason, not that I would ever try them. The "Jack Benny Program" was often sponsored by Lucky Strike and the Camel News Caravan with John Cameron Swayze (Patrick Swayze's distant cousin) in the 1950s was sponsored of course by Camel cigarettes whose logo was prominently displayed, I think. This morphed into the Huntley-Brinkley Report of the late '50s and the 1960s where, if I'm not mistaken, both Chet Huntley and David Brinkley (both unsurpassed as far as I'm concerned) smoked while on the air. Johnny Carson smoked on the Tonight Show too well into the '70s--he seemed to curtail that in the '80s.

Watching the old cigarette commercials on Youtube, it's easy to see why they were banned. They were very persuasive, made smoking look delicious, and had some catchy jingles. That was some strong advertising!

Call for Philip Mor-reees!

Granny loves her Winstons.

Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco!

[quote] They were very persuasive, made smoking look delicious, and had some catchy jingles.

Movies were even more persuasive. And that has not been banned.

There was a lot of sexual undertone to r46, I guess it's called "subliminal". Doral's "taste me" slogan was one example. The tobacco companies certainly had the resources to afford the best advertising agencies.

To this day, Marlboro is still considered the best advertising campaign of all time. The history of Marlboro is quite interesting.

r48 Seriously?