Classic Tobacco Commercials

[@stanleycostello9610]

I was a kid in the 1960's, and I miss the Marlboro commercials. Cowboys, horses and the open range made me feel proud to be an American. My Dad smoked Marlboro. I sort of remember cigarette smoke and black coffee and Aqua Velva with my Dad. I wish he was here to give me some advice about life and honor and love...

[@fredthejunkman]

My dad smoked Winston.Drank black coffee. Wore Old Spice. Wish he was here to talk about baseball and life....

[@dmrr7739]

He’d probably tell you not to listen to fake cowboys on teevee.

[@bb22602]

He'd probably tell you ,"DON'T SMOKE",

[@kathleendinsmore7588]

Old Spice and cigars were for my dad. For the most part he hated television but he enjoyed Ernie Kovacs with his big fat cigars.

[@armeswilli01]

Die sind alle an Cancer gestorben , except the Horse!

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

That "micronite" filter they're singing and talking about in the Kent cigarettes, turns out to be none other than asbestos! They were sold from 1952-1956 with asbestos in the filter!

[@CamaroAmx]

Newports uses fiberglass to this day

[@doughboi007]

That's scary. Any other weird filter ingredients you know of?

[@Playsinvain]

Asbestos! It’s the A way…A OK

[@Playsinvain]

@@doughboi007merits had chocolate in the filter…or so it was said

[@mgmcd1]

I own a full pack of those.

[@magarac99]

Fred and Barney smoking Winstons on the Flintstones

[@christopherliebler]

I don't even smoke and all of a sudden I feel like having a cigarette LOL

[@williamstidham2163]

Go ahead, Do you feel LUCKY,

[@dan-tk9in]

Same here lol

[@JacobWynn-rdr]

Fr

[@loganmacgyver2625]

for the taste that you like, light up a lucky strike!🎶

[@LeviDoek15]

Thats how powerfull and smart these commercials where. I adore them for the wrong reasons lol

[@andrissanta9905]

Back when commercials wanted to sell you a product, not a damn universe full of shit

[@onewholovesvenison5335]

I respect my grandfather for never becoming a smoker despite the pressure to do so surrounding him his whole life.

[@emmacohen3926]

Yup,,makes sense to me my friend 👏👏👏👏 to grandad 🇬🇧🇬🇧🇬🇧👍

[@gregtrent3335]

I remember movie theatre seats had ashtrays mounted on the backs of them so to keep butts and ashes off the floor. I miss hearing the occasional click of a Zippo lighter while watching the movie!

[@chrishuerta5668]

Yeah me too

[@davidely7032]

Ick.

[@ferociousgumby]

You could also smoke on a plane.

[@denvan3143]

The lobby and every movie theater and restaurant had a cigarette vending machine machine.

[@ferociousgumby]

@@denvan3143 And all cars were equipped with lighters and ash trays. They stank.

[@meudeusefiel9820]

Thank you for putting all this together and sharing it. Amazing collection 👍

[@ferociousgumby]

48:21 "It spins the smoke" (and Big Tobacco knew how to spin it).

[@richardblayneamerican8149]

My favorite ads were featured on 'Gunsmoke'.. It was the Marlboro man, lighting a cigarette with a flaming twig from a campfire. I thought that was so cool; when I was a smoker I tried it myself. I singed my eyebrows.

[@patriciaoreilly8907]

Lol 😂

[@nomadmarauder-dw9re]

Next time, go Mongo.

[@ravenslaves]

I do love a fresh, smooth and mellow flavor whenever I light up a healthy filtered cigarette. A flavor so smooth, you just want to burst into song everytime you inhale that refreshing, healthy smoke. Just like a night in the Alps with that clean and clear air, with the woody flavor that only a premium filtered cigarette can provide.

[@e.a.p3174]

My brother in law started to smoke on the advice of his doctor. I grew up in the 60's and 70's and the majority of people smoked. I smoked for about 3 years and in July of 1986, I threw my cigarettes out the window of my car and never touched another cigarette.

[@Kinann]

Similar. First time memories since original airing mostly for me and it only reinforces just how pervasive tobacco advertising was back then.

[@youtuber3328]

please read my comment

[@pooky1959]

Litter bug. Good job though.

[@artadrians]

Maybe not so good for you, BUT ... GREAT MEMORIES 🤠

[@robertyounes2339]

S CT

[@moonytheloony6516]

maybe?

[@ferociousgumby]

Softness, freshness, mildness, cool, smooth, refreshing - breathes in fresh air - air-softened taste - almost all these ads emphasized how the smoke was somehow rendered harmless.

[@JansouSumireiro]

Pall Mall: "You can light either end" Yeah, you could also light a Camel or a Lucky Strike on either end...

[@CaH6633]

And back then you could also light like most cigarettes on either end I think tbh.

[@pauliegee78]

Golden age of radio was pushing them hard .l heard " More doctors recommend Camel cigarettes ".

[@billolsen4360]

When my family moved to a small Colorado town in 1962, my mom went to work as a supervisory nurse at the local hospital. Most of the nurses smoked, except Mom and all nine of the doctors in town smoked, except one.

[@fromthesidelines]

That was due to a survey R.J. Reynolds originally commissioned in 1946 (and similar ones followed). They claimed "113,597 doctors" had taken the survey which posed the question, "What cigarette do YOU smoke, Doctor?". In their advertising in all mediums......"The brand named most was CAMELS." Why? Because R.J. Reynolds sent free samples of Camel cigarettes to *all* 113, 597 doctors BEFORE that survey was send to them. And that survey was rigged as a result.

[@ferociousgumby]

Notice they bragged about Camels being sent to military hospitals.

[@akrenwinkle]

Anyone remember when airconditioned stores had a sign in the front door announcing "It's Kool Inside" showing a pack of Kools?

[@ferociousgumby]

I remember walking to the corner store to buy cigarettes for my older sister. I was 12 years old.

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

LSMFT- As kids we said "Loose Straps Means Floppy Tits!" Those cigarette commercials were the great material for elementary school stand-up routines.

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

@Robert_Jeffrey Hill HAH! I forgot about that! (I seem to recall several more _even ruder_ interpretations...I have to have a think on that...)

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

Just a quick Google search _starts with_ : Liposclerosing Myxofibrous Tumor

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

"Lord, Save Me From Truman" "Less Shit, More Fucking Tobacco"

[@ernestcruz6316]

As a kid I liked the Wacky Packages version of the Pall Mall slogan: "Wherever Particular People Congregate" became "Wherever PECULIAR People Congregate".

[@SleepyDude21]

I started smoking Lucky Strikes this year, lol

[@allisoncorona84]

The first thing my mom did when she woke up in the morning was smoke a cigarette, she smoked a cigarette just before going to bed, and smoked all day long, but she would swear to God that she wasn't addicted. It was that kind of lifestyle that killed her 😢.

[@manonmars2009]

Wow, "snow fresh filter cool." "I always smoke when I work, they go together." My dad smoked Salem cigarettes and back in the early 1970s, a carton cost $2.50. He burned cigarettes faster than he spent money. He had a major heart attack at age 41 and at 53 another heart attack got him for good. When I was a kid in the 60s, it seemed as though every adult in the Army smoked, including my dad. It was a normal part of life; it was no big deal. Behaviors that were normal and accepted then are not so today. The consequences of smoking for most people will, over time, catch up with them.

[@mikeywestside8509]

This stuff was way before my time but I'm old enough to still remember ads on billboards and magazines. My mom used to smoke Salem 100's and I would steal one from her pack every so often.

[@fromthesidelines]

5:10- One of the first filmed cigarette ads produced for televison (by Jam Handy for American Tobacco's Lucky Strike), originally seen in 1948.

[@jugghead-1975]

More Doctors approve of old gold than any other smoke!! Lol ...right on doc

[@muspobear]

Love the good ole days of: “Ride At Your Own Risk”. AWE THE GREAT OLE DAYS!!!

[@andrealuvshouse]

And within about 5 years most of those women had horrible, gravelly hoarse voices; men and women’s teeth were going bad and they looked 20 years older than they were. Everything stunk of stale cigarette smoke. We couldn’t go on a plane or train without finding stale old cigarette butts in the ash trays. Nasty.

[@ferociousgumby]

I saw an interview with a grey-haired guy who had an orange mustache on one side. Later they showed him smoking out of that side of his mouth. It was a nicotene stain.

[@marktrow4142]

Very cool thanks for this. Interesting to see how cigarette commercials were back in those days

[@push935]

Nothing like a cig with some black coffee on a cold winter morning. Too bad they're not good for you

[@fromthesidelines]

29:30 Bob Cummings' "MY HERO" was sponsored by Dunhill cigarettes (a Philip Morris product) in the 1952-'53 season on NBC. This integrated ad [26:30], featuring co-star Julie Bishop, is from June 1953.

[@ferociousgumby]

Thanks, Barry! I always appreciate your input.

[@fromthesidelines]

You're welcome!

[@JohnSmith-cf4gn]

I started smoking in 1965 when cigarettes were twenty five cents a pack or two dollars a carton. Kids could buy cigarettes back then. We actually had freedom.

[@talon1706]

I started in 1973 and they were 45 cents a pack. I quit in 2005 when they were $7 a pack.

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

I started smoking in 1968 at 14. Marlboro Regulars for 50¢ a pack from the vending machine at the Shell gas station. I quit at age 32 same age my parents quit. None of us had lung cancer after 18 years of puffing cancer sticks.

[@JohnSmith-cf4gn]

@@IMCcanTWEESTED I've smoked for 58 years so far. I see no reason to quit. I haven't been to a doctor in years.

[@hebneh]

@@JohnSmith-cf4gn I'm sure you're very proud of how much money you've given to the tobacco companies that convinced you to start smoking in the first place, knowing that once you were addicted, you'd be giving them money constantly.

[@yankeedoodle1963]

⁠​⁠@@hebnehI quit smoking 14 years ago. I’ve been buying and selling tobacco stocks for some time with all the money I’ve saved. I’m 60 now, and even though I know cigarettes are engineered to be addictive & designed to kill, I still want to light up a cigarette. It’s diabolical, insidious and infernal. These ads were made for companies that knew, with the utmost degree of certainty , that hundreds of thousands of their customers would become sick and die if they continued to smoke.

[@loganmacgyver2625]

20:29 bruuh those were the asbestos filtered cigarettes. That's like speedrunning cancer

[@devinconn8097]

Make me wanna smoke lol

[@Mondomeyer]

The smell of cigarettes makes me sick and I'm prone to allergies so I know smoking would really hinder my breathing, yet these commercials make me want to try it. These are damn effective ads.

[@jasonking1284]

I love the smell of a freshly lit cigarette.....

[@one-iy6kw]

​@@jasonking1284 smoking while watching

[@fredthejunkman]

@@jasonking1284 I was a former 3 pack a day smoker. Gave it up 40 years ago. Can't stand ciggie smoke now, but I love the smell of marijuana.

[@youtuber3328]

i wasn't aren't and won't be anti tobacco AT ALL PERIOD

[@youtuber3328]

please read my comments

[@lestersabados1306]

Dick Van Dyke is in his late 90s. As of April 3rd 2023, Mr. Van Dyke was still alive and driving into car accidents!

[@BELCAN57]

He was probably reaching for a "Kent".

[@salinagrrrl69]

His son is or was a smoker.

[@timothymccarthy4704]

I quit 25 years ago but I still want to go buy a pack of lucky or camels.

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

OH NOOOOO! Whenever will I learn what the exciting Old Gold announcement was..??! I suppose I'll just have to take up smoking 10 packs of Old Gold a day for a few years then it'll likely just occur to me, out of the blue... (or rather, the reddish-yellow/brown...) I especially like the guys lighting up right after stowing a crate of dynamite in their jeep...

[@BELCAN57]

Art James announced that Old Golds were now available in "King Size". Whoopee.

[@fromthesidelines]

In 1953, that WAS a big deal. Dennis James gave up endorsing Old Gold in 1955.

[@JohnShields-xx1yk]

I'm actually smoking a lucky strike right now, there a little cheaper, $ 9.50 😲, I just turned 64, I grew up as a toddler in the early 1960's with ashtrays in my face with smoldering cigs, I know I should quit but I'm an old stubborn fool.

[@lynesmith9203]

As a kid I used to spend 5 cents of my allowance on a pack of Popeye candy cigarettes but only in the winter because then it looked like I was actually smoking. Some people were born to smoke. I have been thru every try to quit routine there is including hypnosis, patches, gum cold turkey ( by the second day even the dogs wouldn't come near me lol) lasers etc. Like yourself when my doctor gets on my case I tell him I'm stubborn not stupid. I can remember when you could smoke visiting your sick relative in the hospital or on the bus. I've read that a heroin addiction is easier to break than quitting smoking. You are not alone!

[@kathleendinsmore7588]

Good grief! Back in the day 🚬 smoking 🚬 was considered the best thing ever. Amazing too how many different brands there were.

[@stevepaul6955]

It was socially acceptable......even the Flintstones smoked.

[@BiggCole114]

No one knew it was a bad thing back then and I'm a smoker Once they gain knowledge to what smoking leads too I'm sure it was hard to stop because by then most were addicted

[@ferociousgumby]

I think Hollywood contributed to the illusion that smoking was glamorous and cool. All through the '30s, '40s and '50s, actors and actresses smoked heavily and made it part of romance and courtship. Think Bette Davis and Paul Henreid in "Now, Voyager", where the cigarette ritual happened three or four times, where he lit two cigarettes at once and handed her one. And then she blewwwwww the smoke out in a long stream.

[@jeffkeith3654]

My Grandmother Smoked Chesterfield Non Filter King Size, My Mom Salem Menthol, My Aunt Pallmall Red, all passed from COPD, and Heart Conditions.

[@no-prophet]

Very sorry for your loss. I've been smoking pack a day for over 30 years now and according to my doctor my heart and lungs are just fine, never had any problems. I'm not saying that smoking is good for your health at all, that's just my experience.

[@matthewnikitas8905]

@@no-prophetWell there are a lot of things to consider, like how much you smoke and how deeply you breathe in. My aunt was a smoker for 70 years and lived to be 84. But she suffered badly from COPD in her later years.

[@no-prophet]

@@matthewnikitas8905 I smoke a pack a day and I breathe the smoke very deep. I'm 52, and I don't even cough, not even a little bit. My MD is always in awe when he sees me. Unfortunately, my dad had real problems with his lungs, but that didn't kill him, he quit at 72, after 50 years of heavy smoking.

[@fromthesidelines]

By 1955, Bob Cummings was on the air again for Winston with his second series (1955-'59). The integrated commercial here [51:35] was originally seen at the end of the episode "The Sheik" [December 29, 1955].

[@Jah_Rastafari_ORIG]

@Barry I. Grauman 🎶 "Winston tastes bad Like the cigarette I just had No filter No taste Just a 40 cent waste!" 🎺

[@lindapendleton9176]

Bob Cummings was a health nut and didn't smoke or drink. Money talks.

[@lynnleavitt478]

As a young kid, my neighbor friends sang, "Winston tastes bad like a cigarette I had- no filter, and flavor, just like stinky, shitty toilet paper.

[@IMCcanTWEESTED]

We sang it, "Winston tastes bad like the one I just had, No filter, no flavor, just toilet paper...slightly used."

[@wayfarer4578]

Winston were the worst! I used to smoke Marlboros, now I roll my own.

[@ChadQuick270W]

When I started they were 89 cents a pack and often you’d see displays with “buy one (or two) packs and get one free”. Ha! Now they’re $11 a pack. Ridiculous 😡

[@gloomyvale3671]

My old grandad smoked all his life he died at 190 years old smoked 40 packs a day never harmed him.

[@hebneh]

I was one of the kids who grew up absolutely bombarded by all this advertising, constantly. At the time nobody questioned at all if children should be indoctrinated this way; it was considered normal and unremarkable. Cigarette advertising on radio and TV ended when I was 16, but I can still remember some of these slogans and musical jingles. Fortunately, all these ads didn't work on me and I always thought smoking was unpleasant and stupid.

[@patrickwells4014]

Then you must have been in the same years I was. 1951?

[@hebneh]

@@patrickwells4014 1954.

[@patrickwells4014]

@@hebneh Pretty close.

[@onemoremisfit]

I was born in '59 so I remember all the ads from the '60s. I also remember how smoking was common and accepted everywhere. Smokers ruled and non smokers were unusual and almost odd. This explains why even today the current crop of nicotine slaves consider their habit a historic "right" that has been wrongfully denied. There was also a PSA I recall on TV during the mid '60s where the theme was "like father - like son". It depicted a preschool boy with his dad, the boy adorably mimicked everything his dad did, then dad lit up a smoke from a pack with a large "zero" logo on the pack, and set the pack aside while enjoying his smoke. The boy inquisitively picked up the pack while dad didn't seem to be aware. With everything known today about smoking, and the tide of public opinion squarely turned against smokers with their addiction and obnoxious smoke emissions now seen as a pathetic destructive disgrace, it's amazing to me that any young people at all still pick them up.

[@patrickwells4014]

@@onemoremisfit Here, here, bravo. Well said, Wells said. I was one of those boys. My last cigarette was when I was 49 years old. Have not smoked one since. I hope that some day cigarette smoking will be totally looked down on and that children and adults will never pick up that filthy habit.

[@fromthesidelines]

1:41:05- Originally seen in 1964. Of course, in his later years, Arnold Palmer- who had been a constant smoker- succcessfully won his battle against nicotine addiction, and urged people NOT to smoke or take up the habit, because he insisted smoking had a negative effect on every organ in the body. A better endorsement he made was for Arizona's "Half & Half" Iced Tea and Lemonade......which still has his name and picture on it, years after his passing.

[@jofus3604]

"Smoke PALL MALL, Light'em up on both ends, break in half and you got two little ones! Rory Calhoun, "Death Valley Days" 1952-1970 TV show!

[@ferociousgumby]

Or you could always eat them.

[@1701echopapa]

It's amazing that back in the '50s and '60s they tried to convince you that cigarettes were actually good for you.

[@fromthesidelines]

1:02-:26- Originally seen in 1964. By the way, that St. Bernard puppy was a unique premium in Alpine's catalog of "free" gifts that season. You could have him for 18,830 "dividend coupons".

[@arthureverett8220]

Don’t smoke in bed. Our bedbugs are getting cancer

[@tiger7199]

I loved the jingles. As a kid the cigarette ads were all over the TV.

[@jenniferpetti859]

I quit smoking over 10 years ago. I still miss it every day

[@NYVoice]

The days before the Surgeon General stepped up with warning labels.

[@danr1920]

64 years old and I still remember the Maroburo and Winston jingles. Weren't they banned in the late 60's on TV and Radio?

[@CamaroAmx]

January 1st 1970. The final cigarette ad was a Newport ad.

[@ApartmentKing66]

Actually, the law took effect Jan. 2, 1971.

[@danielmaher7108]

I liked the Silva Thins commercials. Dig the dark glasses and the turtle neck- the height of fashion!

[@genarbeard3335]

This is when my generation "trusted the science."

[@ferociousgumby]

"Cleaner, fresher, smoother" meant "it won't make you sick". And it's TOASTED!

[@ChadQuick270W]

Wow! What a collection. I’ve not seen a lot of these before. The good old days of soft packs and white filters (never understood the reason for the fake “cork” brown paper on the filter. I like how 100’s were called “Super King Size” lol. Salem is still my favorite although at $11 a pack I smoke less now than I used to.

[@bladerunner752]

Ohhhhhh a 1,000 dollar cash prize. Hey 2023 here, Oh goodie i might be able to fill the car with gas and possibly get some groceries.

[@XM394-xxx]

You do realize you have to take inflation into account, right? You'd be getting over $12k today

[@bladerunner752]

@XM394-xxx no shit Dick Tracy, I was just making fun of the inflation we have right now and how 1000 wouldn't go very far anymore.

[@dirksichveland7801]

When I stoled a Lucky from my Grandfather, they made me high as a kite, just a puff or too. 😊.

[@sandysmith9869]

Smoking makes me look cool, sophisticated, and kids look up to me because smoking makes me look older, like I've got everything covered, and under controll. 😎👍

[@richiehoyt8487]

You're joking, of course... You _ARE_ joking aren't you?! (It isn't always possible to discern whether or not someone is being ironic on the web!) _Isn't_ it amazing though that what you describe is _exactly_ how we thought about smoking - makes you look grown~up! Or attractive to girls (as I chose to believe!) Good Kerrist! How dumb _were_ we?! Of course, the great irony is that the law considers adults 'big enough and ugly enough' to decide for themselves if they want to ingest something addictive and harmful to them; whereas children's brains are still developing, so they need to be protected from themselves... Or to put it another way, if you see an adult smoking, that's the kind of person that can't be entrusted with the front - door key!! Incidentally, if there's one thing the cig manufacturers bang on about more than the tobacco, it's the filter... Since a filter is, by definition, something that keeps out crud, you'da thought it might behoove us to question just what is in the tobacco that makes these filters they keep on about such a necessity?! (And that's just the tobacco itself, never even mind the so~called 'texturing and flavouring agents' they add!)

[@webstarIS]

Remember that as you lie dying in your hospital bed gasping for that elusive oxygen you never seem able to grasp and inhale into your narlied lung tissues. Ah, smoking does that too.

[@allisoncorona84]

I'm guessing that you're younger than 25 or so. EVERYONE thinks that way at that age. "Nothing bad will EVER happen to ME because I'm the great ME. " Well, keep thinking like that, because there's nothing I like better than saying, "I told you so‼️" And yes, it WILL make you look older; you'll look like you're fifty when you're thirty.

[@matthewnikitas8905]

@@allisoncorona84Smoking definitely ages you a lot I can attest to that personally I work with people who are in their 50’s that look 80 because of smoking

[@joekelley5121]

"Kool, as cool and as clean, as a breath of fresh air!" Yes, they're just like that! 😃

[@timothysimmons5648]

Does anyone happen to know what music was being used in the Benson & Hedges commercials was? I always rather liked it.

[@ChristopherSobieniak]

It's this... kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnKxiYyJjLR7o9k

[@fromthesidelines]

It's called "The Disadvantages of You", written for Benson & Hedges by Mitch Leigh. A group called "The Answer" recorded it for their commercials when they began in 1967. A "45" was released of the original soundtrack used in those ads {without the plugs for B&H}: kzbin.info/www/bejne/hnKxiYyJjLR7o9k

[@ernestcruz6316]

​@@fromthesidelinesI didn't know that Barry. I knew The Brass Ring had the hit version in 1967. But all those Easy Listening acts covered the same songs anyway back then.

[@bacer735]

i feel like this is a great video to watch while on something

[@georgejordan5611]

The sound of the metallic cigarette lighter closing...the smell of second hand smoke...it was a given years ago...

[@packstevewood]

In my teens and early 20s I loved the smell of morning coffee and cigarettes. Still love the morning brew aroma but without the smell of secondhand smoke

[@Mondomeyer]

I know a flasher His name is Mark Ask him for a smoke and he'll show ya his lark

[@Thomas-yr9ln]

Lucky strike was my grandfather's brand. He passed away from old age in the late 1980s. The cigarettes never killed him tho my aunt passed away from lung cancer from smoking. Some folks it's deadly to others it's not. The question is do you want to roll the dice and see if it's deadly to you.?

[@ethanshelbyskateboarding9980]

It's safer than alcohol

[@chrishuerta5668]

Does anyone remember candy cigarettes????

[@retiredinbali9565]

Yup, I do. They were white, the ends with red dye to look like they were lit. They tasted like Wintergreen flavor. You had to first break off each cigarette from it's cluster.

[@lindadanforth-md8hc]

"flavor" "delicious" "taste"

[@dannygaines1352]

Flavor.

[@tr7198]

That was the era of social drinking and smoking. People today don't smoke because they have their cell phones Think about all the reasons people play on their phones and that was why people smoked for distraction

[@atant2]

Some of those Salem ads played the most depressing version of “Ain’t We Got Fun” that I’ve ever heard. 😂

[@CaH6633]

Okay the Kent ads unironically have me rolling on the fucking floor they're so funny "remember ladies and gentlemen Kent cartons make for excellent Christmas presents" holy fucking piss shit I knew they were marketing these fucking things out the ass back then but I didn't know they were telling you to put the shit in your kid's xmas stalking lmfao fuck

[@TimRobinson-kd3zn]

You can get lung cancer watching all these old spots but they are fun to look at thanks for posting

[@tommaika9121]

Dang ! I wanna see those SALEM HOT CHIX ! Lets All Start Smokin' !

[@patkcorcoran]

Bring back healthy cigarettes like all these.

[@melindabevan6667]

No cigarettes are healthy, unfortunately

[@matthewnikitas8905]

@@melindabevan6667They certainly acted like it was then

[@joekelley5121]

My father started smoking in 1934 at age 7, back whey they were healthy! 😃

[@benpluta6187]

Now it's mj that's now legal and a cure all ,history repeating itself

[@joekelley5121]

@@benpluta6187 and again, people are claiming it's healthy.

[@CamaroAmx]

Oddly enough a German study in the late 30s actually was first to link tobacco with health issues. By the 50s the surgeon general announced that tobacco is linked to health issues. It started to make people rethink the perception of cigarettes. Which is why by 1970, cigarette ads were banned on tv. Smoking rates started to drop, especially as the health conscious trend started to kick in by the late 70s. By the early 90s, laws came into effect regarding smoking restrictions (like where you can smoke). All of it led to the lawsuits that lead to the Master Tobacco Settlement, forcing the tobacco industry to pay fines, restitutions, and further restrictions to tobacco advertising. It also forced the tobacco industry to find anti smoking ads and projects (like Truth). However in a few years the Settlement will end. No one is sure what will happen after that. Oddly enough all the settlement did was force tobacco companies to expand into other industries and market “safer” alternatives to smoking like E-cigarettes (most e-cigarette companies are owned by tobacco companies) and it also caused several of them to merge. The decline of smoking actually killed a lot of the brands in these commercials, the companies ended up just focusing on their most popular brands. Part of what caused the decline in smoking, besides the more public knowledge of the health risks, is also the increase in taxes on tobacco (in most cases the taxes add 300-400% to the price).

[@fromthesidelines]

"THE DICK VAN DYKE SHOW" was co-sponsored by Lorillard Tobacco [Kent] from 1962 through '66. The ads (18:51-23:30) are from 1964.

[@rickwarhead4291]

​@Chris Fotiadis yeah and the worst thing is they made a lot of money on it too.

[@JazznRealHipHop]

Man I need a cigarette

[@CamaroAmx]

Got my Luckies.

[@manolokonosko2868]

The Pink Panther smoked cigarettes. I watched those cartoons as a kid. I also watched movies, commercials and people in real life smoking. I tried cigarettes a few times but never got into them for a couple of reasons: (1) they were getting expensive (2) the inconvenience (3) my parents (not smokers) would be disappointed (4) had asthma as a kid. Didn’t miss it. Didn’t want to go back to having breathing problems.

[@moonytheloony6516]

Ya tried smoking as an asthmatic, that's brilliant.

[@matthewnikitas8905]

@@moonytheloony6516Like you’ve never made a mistake in your life?

[@florida1289]

By God I got it. Look, I'm gonna say, "you can tell its Viceroy even when blind folded" then you start the music

[@denisefarmer366]

Marlboro used the song from The Magnificent 7 movie. It was probably the most effective and successful cigarette commercial ever. All these ads look ridiculous to me now, but back then it was just what we were used to and they actually looked like people were just being honest and genuine. Propaganda (aka commercials) has become very sophisticated these days, more natural. Still all crap.

[@powlperc]

Yes

[@webstercat]

Yes you can tell it’s a viceroy even when blinded folded. Sold me right there…

[@parsifal40002]

My mother smoked 2 packs a day and my dad a pack of cigarettes and cigars. Both of them died of lung cancer and cardiac arrest. Lost my dad in 1993, my mom in 1998. Cigarettes and cigars will eventually damage your lungs, drinking alcohol will eventually damage your liver.

[@rickwarhead4291]

Very sorry to hear that it's sad because I don't think the early adopters of smoking truly knew because of lack of long term study about what the negative effects of smoking where.

[@jasonking1284]

So... if you don't smoke... and drink... you are guaranteed to live to 200?...

[@chrishuerta5668]

Aww damn how old were they???

[@lesliehoncharik1289]

I'm sorry for your loss...it leaves a big hole when mom and dad are gone....lost my dad back in 1999, my mom 2 yrs ago at age 95. I can relate.

[@Mondomeyer]

​@@jasonking1284Yes, that is clearly what is being said.

[@jslevenson101]

The media is a powerful message

[@zaq55]

@ 1:06:05 - George Fenneman

[@fromthesidelines]

1:12:51- Originally seen in 1963. Bob Wright speaks for Kent.

[@oluhamilton2121]

The GOOD OLE FKCD UP days!

[@zaq55]

Why do these companies always brag up their filters? If the tobacco was so good, why does it need to be filtered?

[@CamaroAmx]

Filters were a new thing at the time. When they first came out, they appealed to women (Marlboro was originally marketed to women). In order to increase their market share, they started to marketing to men (with the introduction of the Marlboro man). In time filtered cigarettes became the most popular version. The advantages of filtered cigarettes were a smoother inhale, no tobacco on the teeth and you could actually smoke the entire cigarette.

[@dmrr7739]

Filters were pushed in the 1950s as a reaction to mounting reports that linked smoking to lung cancer and heart disease. By the late 50s, most people knew smoking was bad for you. Filters were marketed as an implied magical fix, but their real purpose was to prevent smokers from panicking and doing something crazy, like quitting. Since cigarettes are all pretty much the same, filters became a way to distinguish one brand from the competition. In that regard, the most infamous was Kent with the Micronite filter- a filter made with the most deadly form of asbestos known to man.

[@zaq55]

@@dmrr7739 Thanks for your response. It just goes to show how good ol’ US tobacco companies have always been looking out for their customers. 😁

[@zaq55]

@@CamaroAmx Good point. Never thought about filters allowing you to smoke the whole cigarette. Most of the people I knew usually just smoked them halfway down and then started a new one.

[@CamaroAmx]

@@zaq55 they also had attachments that would let you smoke the whole cigarette. The most famous is the long stem you’d see in old films. I have a stone that you put your cigarette in and you can smoke the whole unfiltered cigarette, however its actually for joints, but it works for cigarettes.

[@chickenvasquez78]

53:36 I love this Chesterfield Cigarette commercial.

[@muspobear]

Great Adds…

[@justinedge3435]

I never thought that flip top box been out that long

[@Linda-bf4pt]

Oh yes, dancing cigarettes!

[@BELCAN57]

Notice how some of these companies stressed how great their filters were.

[@richiehoyt8487]

Exactly! Filters - an object that by definition keeps out undesirable crud!

[@fromthesidelines]

36:46- PAUL FREES: (v.o.) "'I DREAM OF JEANNIE'- brought to you by............ *LARK!* The filter cigarette, that tastes 'Richly Rewarding, Uncommonly Smooth'. There is NOTHING like a Lark!" (1966)

[@fromthesidelines]

30:20- Originally seen in 1966. Art by Saul Mandel.

[@davemandaro2138]

Who needs breath mints for fresh taste when you can have burnt tobacco in your mouth 🤮

[@TheDarkDutchman]

Based on all those commercials smoking can't be bad......🤔.... 🤣🤣🤣

[@philipmcdonagh1094]

You could see in the later years their adds where getting more desperate as people copped on to the dangers. Well I'm still at it and I'm still here.

[@marktrow4142]

While people are able to make their own decisions, I would say most of these commercials are responsible for millions of deaths sadly. Promoting these and giving the impression they were healthy.

[@arthureverett8220]

Try Kent with our famous asbestos filter

[@davidgarris2513]

Where can I procure one of those "automatic coin machines" 🤔😀😛

[@ThomasMetal75]

Alpine cigarettes gave away a St. Bernard dog? I don't believe that!

[@김규식-s6y]

50 60년대에는 담배 안피는게 불가능한 시대였네요 광고를 보다보니 담배피고 싶어지네요 금연 16년차입니다. ㅋㅋ