Classic Ads of the Past That Would Be BANNED Today?

[@477BravoJuliet]

When I was eight years old I used to walk down to the bar at the end of our road and buy cigarettes from the cigarette machine. It was perfectly normal for kids to buy smokes for their parents in the early 70's if they had a permission note. They cost $0.35 a pack.

[@Paul-D-Hoff]

WWII, Lucky Strike's green has gone to war. The green dye was supposed to be use in army uniforms for the war. Their cigarette packs became White.

[@GenXfrom75]

I was buying Schaffer beer and Railroad Mills powder snuff for my grandma starting around 11! 😅 then Marlboro lights for my aunt when I was a teenager. I started smoking in January 1990 at 14. Never got ID’d until a week before I turned 18 (18 was the legal smoking age in 1993). I quit in February 2020!

[@margaretthatcher6828]

Those were some great ads and I remember a few...Thanks.

[@GenXfrom75]

I got a Shark vacuum ten years ago for Christmas 😅… still using it today! I did ASK for it, though 😂

[@MCW1955]

Just the fact that you had to give a disclaimer to show commercials from the past makes me sad. What a world 😢

[@missdebbie8131]

Everyone's a triggered victim now, and attention seeking babies in for a rude awakening.

[@orinanime]

LOL.... Says the two babies whining in the comments

[@missdebbie8131]

@@orinanime Big difference between whining and lamenting a time before a sense of humor was a crime. There is a difference. Don't you have a participation trophy to go shine?

[@orinanime]

@@missdebbie8131 nope. Whining is still just whining. And polish your own trophies. I know you're not used to doing anything for yourself, but I'm not doing it for you.

[@Paul-D-Hoff]

15 cents in 1914 is about $5 today, Even more in 1885 for that Toothache Drops.

[@billyhomeyer7414]

The toothache drops most likely worked and a drop is relatively safe.

[@GenXfrom75]

The early 1900s were a wild time for legal drugs 😂😂😂

[@-Thauma-]

🤣🤣 my godness cola and cigarettes...

[@TheHalloweenGallery]

This is the way it was back in time. It was never questioned. We should never repeat it but people weren’t uptight like today.

[@AudiophileTommy]

Uptight isn’t even the word for them today 🎉🎉🎉🎉 something up their 🫏 is closer to the truth !

[@missdebbie8131]

​@AudiophileTommy Yup. We knew how to laugh at ourselves and we had some pride that kept us from playing the victim.

[@AlbertScoot]

It all went downhill when snowflakes gave women the right to vote.

[@jam7547]

​@@missdebbie8131 we knew how to laugh play and have. Fun for shake of fun

[@TheodoraB-t5t]

People never liked being called Nigger.

[@mygremlin1]

I remember .25 cent cigs, and .25 cent gasoline. What day's. Oh, and we had money for vacations!

[@rjb6327]

Lysol was also a disinfectant to clean your toilet. Cigarettes were also only a nickle a pack. 2:49 Rod Serling: Serling was said to smoke three to four packs of cigarettes a day. On May 3, 1975, he had a heart attack and was hospitalized. He spent two weeks at Tompkins County Community Hospital before being released.  A second heart attack two weeks later forced doctors to agree that open-heart surgery, though considered risky at the time, was required. The ten-hour-long procedure was performed on June 26, but Serling had a third heart attack on the operating table and died two days later at Strong Memorial Hospital in Rochester, New York. He was 50 years old.

[@caeserromero3013]

1:27 one of the saddest things I ever saw on a London bus was a baby in a push chair, no older than 6 months, with a baby bottle filled with Coke...

[@roncaruso931]

Thats the way it was back then. Sure, some of it was offensive, but its history now. Everyone stop being so sensitive!!!!

[@thepastcomesalive2082]

Yeah! People need to get a life and stop being so sensitive. I agree with you.

[@Thomas-VA]

have some smokes and a little radioactive dip, enjoy

[@roncaruso931]

@Thomas-VA What? Your comment is absurd.

[@pablosilva6988]

Awesome video ⭐ ⭐⭐⭐⭐ keep up the good work my friend 💯

[@kirkmorrison6131]

The green Lucky Stike package was pre early 1942 when the chemicals in the dye became and a war chemical and wasn't available. Lucky new add for the white package was. Lucky Strike has gone to war

[@aarons9259]

It's hard to watch Rod Serling do an ad for Oasis cigarettes, considering that he smoked 3 to 4 packs a day and died after his 3rd heart attack in under 2 months. He will be missed.

[@scottlombardi4603]

Some of these were really bad, but I never understood why Aunt Jemima was considered so offensive.

[@Otokichi786]

The Cigarette commercials remind me of "The King's Speech" (2010), where such were recommended "to calm his nerves."

[@nightshift5201]

11:32 $450 in 1955 is $5300 today. Wow, no wonder my Mum hung on to her wringer machine and clothesline for so long.

[@BUYBOTH]

There as some ads today I find far more offensive than those ads from yesterday. Ads were supposed to go away with the creation of pay tv. Instead we now pay to watch ads, with the only relief being the mute button or recording for later playback and skipping the ads.

[@RobPento]

My father, 94, passed in 2021. But he spoke of those cigs and had Jade East, too.

[@Checkmate1954]

Your channel is a favorite. We are the same age and on the same wavelesgth. Thanks

[@ButOneThingIsNeedful]

I remember an ad in an old 1934 Field & Stream magazine I came across claiming smoking cigarettes "just makes food taste better". LOL

[@southernbreeze3278]

winston's actually are good smokes. I'm with fred on this one

[@Wizard-uo4wj]

well said my smokey pal

[@mygremlin1]

When I was around I went to a dr for a cold. He told me to stop smoking and I said you are a smoker he said dr's. had more stress! LOL

[@sherylgarren9585]

Dates and years would be good

[@DragoBalboa]

My step-dad smoked Chesterfield Kings for 20 years....which finally killed him......John Wayne said, in this video, that he, too, smoked for 20 years, which killed him (cancer)......then there was Leonard Nimoy (Spock) who constantly had a cig in his hand, which....eventually killed him. Then there was Humphrey Bogart, who smoked like a train....and that 'tobacco train' killed him, too.....and, finally, Eddie Van Halen basically killed himself by his habitual smoking. All of these guys died too young because of their choice, and free will, to deliberately suck in all of those deadly poisons, chemicals, and lethal toxins....for which they will be judged when it is their turn to stand before the Judge to give an account of themselves to the Judge....and to willingly explain to the Judge why they chose to be such a bad and wicked steward of their 'precious' bodies, which are one of a kind in this world of 8 billion people (and is why our bodies are 'precious' in the true definition of the word). How ironic that humans are the most intelligent creatures in this world, yet willingly do such stupid things.......like smoking cigarettes.

[@PaulPerez-l3i]

Actually he got cancer from radiation from Utah, filming the conqueror, the whole cast did

[@VelvetRockStudios]

The "Soda Pop Board of America" ad about sodas for babies at 1:31 is a hoax/satire. Never happened.

[@jomerrell]

when I was in college as late as the early 70's my husband would interupt the the class I was in and ask/tell me to go home to hold cigarettes in his mother's mouth for the rest of the day because her emphsema was so bad back then smoking helped relieve it. He had to light the cigaerettes for me and show me how to light one off of another to keep them going.

[@DanODea]

While volunteering in a nursing home in the 1970s, watching victims of throat cancer from smoking... smoking cigarettes in their trach tubes really turned me off smoking.

[@ConradSzymczak]

"I wonder what the Scientists were smoking..." That goes for the "Climatologists" of today.............

[@orinanime]

How so?

[@JimVeneskey]

I assume by "Climatologists" you are referring to the facebook experts that come out of the woodwork to comment whenever climate change is mentioned.

[@ConradSzymczak]

Vitamin donuts!!! I'm in!~

[@delavalmilker]

And as for Lysol on the genitals---I agree.....OUCH!

[@christopherspencer8110]

Lysol was marketed as a douche but used mainly to induce abortions. The pain seemed to provide proof that the treatment was working.

[@DnA...Forever]

indeed....as a matter of fact, it was actually used as a douche to terminate pregnancy's

[@delavalmilker]

Sure--we can scold them for back then being "insensitive" or "offensive" to our modern cultural norms. It's actually got a technical name "Temporal Moral Relativism". And it doesn't mean anything back then was automatically "wrong" by today's standards. What would people of the 50's and 60's think of the excessive sexualization of modern media? Or prime-time TV dropping F-bombs as casually as a sneeze? Or the gross-out violence in movies today?

[@LRoach79]

Was that Ronald Reagan? Crazy 😂

[@specialkalberta]

3:25 I'm not saying heroin is good but that design of that ad was very good even though it only has some lines and text

[@tizfrreecharm]

Hilarious! Been smoking for most of 59 years (mostly menthols till CA's guv Gruesome banned 'em ), but never heard of 'Oasis' "Players' Gtauloise, Gitagnes; worst-ever were the smokes made in Bulgaria which I tried n Prague in 1990.

[@ronm6585]

Thanks Rich.

[@davidedwards3520]

When I was a young kid my uncle would give me $1 to run to the store for 3 packs of Camels. And I could keep the dime!

[@D10PRECIOUS]

Wish they would’ve done more than just a cigarette commercials

[@ralphhowing3473]

Back in the day, there were no advertising laws, so you could say anything you wanted about products, even if it weren't true.

[@nelsondog100]

Canadian ‘got milk’ commercials… one late night watching tv the camera followed a very sexy girl’s butt wearing short ragged denim cutoffs… I only saw it that single time but I’ll never forget it.🔥🥵♨️ Anybody see that one? I’d love to refresh my memory if it’s out there somewhere.

[@fingerlakespreppergrl]

He tells the dates on alot of them

[@sewingintrifocals-alisonde7778]

Wow, smoking WHILE WATERSKIING!

[@virginiaroylance5134]

Wait till the people of the future dissect our ads. Also when they go through the products we said were safe but the future finds they aren't. Should be interesting.

[@caeserromero3013]

Ivor Johnson 'Safety' revolver wasn't too safe for McKinley.

[@tommunyon2874]

The baby formula mix that the doctor had my mother use for me was being advertised as a supplement for bulking up by the time I was a teenager.

[@Lets_Go_Canes]

Who stopped talking in a slang dialogue?

[@StevenGreenGuz]

Man, I miss smoking.

[@Donathon-qx8kq]

Im just commenting on the thumbnail.... what do find offense about that.... they are riding the same bike so obviously they not only know each other but must be close.....and she certainly doesn't look like she's objecting... so its wrong for a man (ah that's the problem) to hold his female: friend' around the waist..... why is that.... good god I've definitely lived past my time

[@calvinkatt662]

I think the positioning of the bicycle seat is the issue.

[@virtualwhispers]

That was too sexually close back in the day

[@per-arnemoa103]

Much crazyness here.

[@markambs9914]

I love the old posters. Why did the announcer make those comments(silly). It is all just history so what is there to be bothered with unless you are one of those that want to punish someone now for things that were done 100 years go?

[@virtualwhispers]

Some of the stuff that was done 100 years ago are STILL being done today - just in a different slicker way

[@laranaarana]

What a time it was!

[@troygoggans5495]

The products have changed but the messaging is still the same overhyping of products.

[@WaverBoy]

Great vid, although you repeated the asthma-curing cigarette ad - other than that, top marks.

[@elainethomas9737]

😯 wow...just wow😮

[@adamcartrette4037]

Every era is going to have its own share of advertising that is offensive to others.

[@John-x7r7p]

These adds are the stupidest things I've ever seen..... Hazzardous to everyone's health

[@danielhanawalt4998]

Very funny...and somewhat disturbing. All in the name of profits I guess. Many of these ads were before my time but not all were.

[@tucopacifico]

Sure glad ads don’t use blacks talking in a slang dialect to sell products anymore.

[@darrensmith6999]

Ironic as Rod Serling love Oasis cigarettes he died of a heart attack he smoked up to three packs of cigarettes a day!!

[@AllanHunter-c2l]

a pack of cigarettes cost about .$.35 cents about the mid 60's

[@virtualwhispers]

I remember when cigarettes cost 22 cents in the vending machines - You put a quarter in and a pack of cigarettes came out with 3 pennies on the side of the pack for your change.

[@Wizard-uo4wj]

when ads were innocent ffs

[@GenXfrom75]

😅

[@nramember.2nd]

Click bait.

[@TommyMcDaniel]

WOW😮

[@Animalwon]

You repeated a few of the ads you highlighted, especially when you ended with another repeat of he cocaine cough drops.

[@peterkirgan2921]

Lol some of these products make me laugh!! So do alot of modern day crap from sth Korea called Samsung & LG absolutely rubbish!!!

[@Nunofurdambiznez]

Giving this a gigantic THUMBS DOWN for being so judgmental about the past! It's in the past, deal with it like an adult!

[@jamesmoss3424]

It's for the best that TV 📺 cigarette 🚬 ads should be banned from television.

[@cateclism316]

Cring - y to modern eyes!

[@paddlingrubberduckie8766]

Yeah, I can't watch this. The commentary is to flaky for me.

[@olsencarl]

I really like this new shopping channel; I’ll take one each of everything please. Kind regards A supporter of Trump

[@paddlingrubberduckie8766]

The worst part of this clip is the commentary. I don't care to be indoctrinated or have the past explained to me. I was there already.

[@marshaharris4268]

You're wierd

[@paddlingrubberduckie8766]

@@marshaharris4268 I know that.

[@virtualwhispers]

YOU might have been there - But a lot of younger people were not - Hence the commentary

[@paddlingrubberduckie8766]

@@virtualwhispers Yes, let's control independent thought among the younger people.

[@virtualwhispers]

@@paddlingrubberduckie8766 .... Are YOU an idiot?? - Nobody is trying to control anyone! YOU need some help!

[@AnonAmouse-d2t]

And the 2024 Virtue Signaling Shitbag Award goes to...

[@rickybroussard5350]

Don’t judge this my generation used to go beer and cigarettes for my Dad

[@virtualwhispers]

Why would you worry about someone judging??

[@EverybodysWrong]

74… Pall Mall Red 100s 🤷‍♀️