Lucille's Ball HIDDEN Secret in EVERY SINGLE (Almost) Episode of "I Love Lucy!"

[@jtodora]

Great video!!! I was a smoker, but quit in 1980 and have never slipped back. I can tell you there is a difference in the flavor of the tobacco. It's hard to describe the taste if you've never tasted tobacco. I was a Marlboro smoker for a long time. One day at work, when you were still allowed to smoke in the plant and office, I ran out of cigarettes and bummed one from one of my co-workers. He smoked Winston's. I smoked it and immediately switched to Winston's. All I can say is that in comparison, Marlboro tasted heavy and dirty (yes...cigarettes are dirty), but I mean a dirty taste. Winston's had a crisp clean taste. Remember, tobacco is a plant and there are more than 70 species. Just like salad greens, each species has a unique taste; some you like, some you don't. Just like salad greens, some people love Kale some people don't. Anyway...my days of smoking are long gone and I'm glad I quit. Again...GREAT VIDEO!!!

[@neildickson5394]

I don't recognize the apartment setting at 1:33. The furnishing look like the Mertzes apartment, but the walls do not. Nor have I seen the characters dressed that way. It appears this could be a skit from some other variety show perhaps. Chesterfield cigarettes were for decades a favorite of the stars who always appeared in their adverts. Later the brand virtually disappeared. It's typically silly to cut smoking scene's except possibly because of children today. They smoked back then, partially out of ignorance. We should be intelligent enough to understand the difference.

[@gcfifthgear]

Interesting on two counts. Lucy was the Chesterfield Girl on billboards in New York in the early 1930s before she moved to Hollywood (and you may have seen her in a 1940s magazine ad in which she comments, "It's MY cigarette.") And when Lucy was pregnant with Little Ricky on "I Love Lucy," Philip Morris specifically told her she was NOT to be seen smoking cigarettes on-screen... (Speaking of smoking on-screen, Garry Moore of "I've Got a Secret" was seldom seen without a cigarette (or a huge WINSTON ashtray) on-camera. Winston, of course, was his long-time sponsor

[@barbiec323]

I work at my first job in a hospital. Everyone including the drs all smoked. The one thing that made people stop smoking was someone in the office started

[@carlahannemann5799]

I think it's funny that Lucille Ball was as sneaky as Lucy Ricardo!

[@vincentlara4563]

Good point! 😁😁

[@BTScriviner]

I don't think they cut the smoking scenes on Pluto TV, because I've been surprised how much they all smoke. Personally, I hate smoking.

[@pl5624]

Even fred Flintstone and Barney rubble smoked Winston's for commercials.

[@bc5441]

I think Wilma Flintstone smoked, too. Fortunately for Fred, Barney and Wilma did not suffer any ill effects from smoking.

[@mangot589]

lol I always remember them smoking behind the house-it was a commercial. Remember, the Flinstones wasn’t marketed to be a kids show. And they never smoked during the actual show in my memory. I still watch it 🤷‍♀️ and I haven’t seen any.

[@tlw1950]

Beverly Hillbillies did ads for Winston cigarettes as well as Kellogg’s Cornflakes.

[@mewregaurdhissyfit7733]

Oh! You got me on a new secret! Pretty much all the things you tell us about many of these old shows, I've heard through the gossip rags over the decades, so they aren't new to me. But this one I've never heard of before. So YEAH! I learned a new secret!! Thanks! Tobacco itself, is not really bad. Whats really bad about smoking is all the addictive chemicals they soak and spray onto the tobacco in production of American cigarettes. THAT stuff is deadly for you. Cigars are cleaner as cigars are more "pure" tobacco that isn't heavily saturated with addictive chemicals. But, I wish they would leave these shows whole. I like to see these old shows in their entirety, and not chopped up to bits just to sooth some massive egos.

[@Jared_Wignall]

I always enjoy hearing stuff about I Love Lucy. Keep up the great work Rick, I hope you’re doing well. Take care!

[@Gman64505]

Hi Rick. I don’t blame you I hate the smell of cigarettes. I never smoked. Anyway I have a question do you know why I love Lucy isn’t on tv anymore I’m from the west coast so I used to watch it at 9 am during the week. And now it’s not on at all. Thank you for your time and sharing your videos.

[@fob1xxl]

Sounds like LUCY the BUSINESS WOMAN ! SMART GAL ! EVERYONE SMOKED BACK THEN. NO ONE KNEW. DONE !❤

[@kimmathis694]

I hate smoking and the smell of it too!

[@purselmer5931]

I've never smoked but there's something about a man in a suit and fedora who has the faint smell of smoke and a faint cologne to me...Just sayin. lol

[@depoquest7928]

So many smoked at the time. I did know she put her cigs in their pkg but I didn't know they cut out some of the scenes. I Love Lucy will always be my favorite show.

[@Ms.Delphine1204]

Reminds me of celebrities doing deals with Samsung but anytime you see them photographed out in the wild, they are using an iPhone lol

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Always! I'm a Samsung user myself and I know of no one else...

[@magi2]

Although I was born in 1960 some of the older shows like I Love Lucy still had shown the Ads., also I myself used to smoke cigarettes but gave those up in the late 70s however as for Cigars and pipe tobacco I gave all that up back in 2012 when I found out I was going to become a Grandfather also I am happy I did give it up.😊

[@briangriffin4937]

In my childhood I recall milk chocolate “cigarettes” wrapped in white paper and contained in clear plastic “cigarette” case. 😮 There were also bubble gum “cigars” in pastel colors with decorative cigar bands mimicking the popular brands of the day. Indoctrinating the kids early on.

[@Edwards-Videos]

There are two scenes that are almost never cut: 1) When Lucy is inside the TV and does an advertisement for Phillip Morris (she had taken the inside of the TV out for some reason.) 2) When they were talking about baby names and Ricky turns to Lucy and says (along the lines of): "How about Phillip if it's a boy and Morris if it's a girl." While I am a non-smoker and I don't condone smoking, the line about the baby names has always been one of the lines from the show that I have always remembered.

[@LaMonatrod]

"I want their names to be unique and euphonious." "Ok Unique if it's a boy and Euphonious if it's a girl"

[@Avery_4272]

@@LaMonatrod I've always loved that line!

[@gcfifthgear]

The Philip Morris reference was edited out after smoking was banned on broadcast TV, but it has returned in reruns

[@vincentlara4563]

Interesting. Rick mentioned most are now edited removing the smoking scenes, I never thought about that but it makes sense. Remember when Ricky had a home movie for a movie producer to see and Lucy, Fred, & Ethel spliced their home movie into it? I'm now wondering if the smoking cowboy scenes are now deleted. Kind of ashamed because that scene is priceless, especially when they played in reverse. Oh well, what are you going to do. Always love Rick's videos!

[@gcfifthgear]

@@vincentlara4563 The smoke in the home movie scenes was from their guns, not their Philip Morris cigarettes! 🤠

[@Greatdome99]

Other products on view: the 1955 Pontiac convertable GM gave them to drive to LA; Union Pacific's Streamliner 'City of Los Angeles' for "The Great Train Robbery" the only episode featuring a black actor (Pullman porter).

[@joeyrivful]

Another very interesting video. I read that Lucy liked Chesterfield cigarettes. I don't smoke and like the smell either.

[@gc4644]

I can't imagine how horrible it had to be to be a non-smoker back in the 1950s. Everyone smoked everywhere: Restaurants, Businesses, even in hospitals and airlines! Imagine how horrible that would have been to be stuck inside an airplane for 4-6 hours with at least 75% of all people smoking. That had to be a tough time period to live in (as a non-smoker).

[@nickimontie]

It was like that until the 70's and 8nto the 80's. Smoking everywhere - I hated it!

[@ricknineg]

Maybe non smokers would probably have succumbed to the pressure, that may even include me

[@Martin48964]

Hey Rick I have an antique Phillip Morris pack tin! I have it displayed with my other antique items!

[@MsBackstager]

I can still recall the arguments I had at various jobs when I told people to smoke away from me and not in my face.

[@flmlvr]

@@ricknineg Maybe not Rick. I didn't. But then my personality is so that if everybody ELSE smoked, then I wouldn't. Hehe. I don't drink either. Honest.

[@alphonsocarioti512]

Four out of Five Doctors smoked Camels!

[@glorianelson9538]

I remember that!

[@selwynlawton7939]

Correction, Nine out of Ten Doctors smoked Camels!!!! Got that from listening to Old Time Radio Shows!! 😂😂😂😂😂

[@Greatdome99]

Four out of five doctors prefer women

[@paulrs2975]

Now I'm not sure, I watch the episodes on Paramont+, are they "censored" like you say? Yes, I hate the smell of cigarette smoke and never smoked myself even while in the U.S. military in the 1980s.

[@Ames2pleaze1]

I smoked cigarettes for 40 years & I switch brands only a few times. I would suggest that most smokers have a preferred brand, & as many habits are, people's habits have specifics that must be followed or met, or it's just not the same for them. As for removing scenes? I dislike any kind & type of censorship. Audio or images "beeping," "blurring," or otherwise editing in any way from the original content is censorship. In my opinion, I find censorship disrespectful and manipulating. Cheers!

[@lucyrue8808]

Off topic but you ever notice that Ethel is always eating a banana? In several episodes.

[@cjmarshall0221]

Another point. I say this because many people weren't around from that time period, and may not understand how the system worked. In the 1950s, television shows only had one sponsor - a holdover from the days of radio. Shows would negotiate with the merchants and had to agree to push the product in their productions. If say the sponsor was Maytag, a appliance such as a washing machine had to appear in the show. Often the star would appear between acts, extolling the virtues of the washing machine - or whatever product sold by the sponsor. This practice eventually fell out of favor due to the expense involved, and switched to many sponsors signing up to have their commercials appear on popular shows. This broke the domination - such as what was demonstrated in I Love Lucy - of what a sponsor would or would not allow to be shown by the actors.

[@gcfifthgear]

Those "integrated" commercials were part of the sponsor's contract. While not so much done with food products, just look at most sitcoms from the 1960s. "Bewitched" used Chevrolet cars (and there were many scenes with Sam and Darrin enjoying Aunt Jemima pancakes, too); "Hazel" used Ford vehicles; "Leave it to Beaver" was co-sponsored by Chrysler and that's why you saw Ward driving a Plymouth after the first season). Plus, General Electric was a co-sponsor, and June had the top-of-the-line GE appliances in her new home!

[@cjmarshall0221]

@@gcfifthgear Yes, now looking back, I remember that. I recall seeing Darin (Dick York) and Sam having breakfast with Quaker Oats quick oatmeal. Darin yells at Sam for using witchcraft, until Sam points out how easy and fast it is using quick oatmeal. The practice of one company sponsoring a company - or being a major sponsor - was gradually phased out over time due to costs. They are most preventant in the early 60s, and practically gone by the end of the decade.

[@southernguy35]

There's a story of W.C. Fields on a radio show talking about his son. The problem they had is an other cigarette company paid the bills and W.C. kept mention his son Chester Fields. I do have to wonder. I know Lucy and Desi were heavy smokers but was Vivian Vance?

[@sandyseibelhager7131]

Phillip Morris is still a big name.

[@Greatdome99]

But he's on oxygen.

[@rivaridge7211]

It was a different time and culture. I was born in 1956 and my mother always lamented the fact that she smoked throughout her pregnancy while "carrying me." I was barely six pounds at birth and struggled in my first days, my birth was not premature - Mom's pregnancy was "full term." Mom also related to me that the Doctor who "delivered me" (a lady Doctor, which I guess was somewhat rare at the time) would smoke while she was attending to my mom during her regular pre-birth visits. (This same Doctor was herself pregnant at the time). This all sounds totally insane today, but the Surgeon General's report (linking smoking to lung cancer and other diseases) didn't come out until early 1964.

[@sandybruce9092]

My Mom smoked and drank liquor while pregnant with me (I’m a 1947 boomer). I have no idea if this caused me any problems in utero but it wouldn’t surprise me! I was born around 6lbs. something but that was “normal” at that time - now wondering!!!

[@rivaridge7211]

@@sandybruce9092 Thanks for the reply Sandy - I guess it would be hard to say, all these years later, but we certainly do know for sure that smoking and drinking will never do an unborn child any good. My mom never drank, but her mother did (my Grandmother, during her pregnancies) and one of mom's sisters, my Aunt, was born with "mental retardation" - was it due to heavy smoking/drinking? The family always thought so. Cheers to you.

[@PSPguy2]

I was watching an old I've Got a Secrete episode when they had a 16 yr. old girl as the contestant. When her segment ended the host, Gary Moore, presented her with a parting gift....a carton of Winston cigarettes!

[@gcfifthgear]

He was never seen without a Winston in his hand!

[@jack2breeze]

"Everyone smoked back then" is what I`d hear a lot. Brady Bunch later had ann episode where Greg Smoked and the farther said he smoked to a bit and the mom said that was before we got all the information. The Flintstones evwen pushed Cigarettes

[@jennifergarrett6809]

Back then they didn't know how bad cigarettes were. So it wasn't a big deal about smoking. In the early 1980s you could steal buy them from a vending machine. Which means even a child could buy them. But now that we know better we don't buy them like we use to.

[@sometimes988]

i have noticed when making movies they worry a lot about smoking cigarettes but not so much about smoking other things they smoke,they are both bad .

[@SquidzitAce]

The consensus at one time was that cigarettes were good for your health. They would even have doctors extolling the health benefits in ads. Not sure when that changed. As bad as they smell, I think it's insane that anyone ever though that.

[@theastewart6721]

As a former smoker I can tell you that I would never smoke an unfiltered cigarette. Yuk! And I know Chesterfields were unfiltered not sure about Philip Morris. Taking out those scenes out seems ridiculous to me. Everyone smoked back then as they did in most of the classic movies as well. I think the message is out there that smoking is bad for our health. They have been saying this since the 60’s! I think Lucy was savvy to switch out the cigarettes, lol. Thanks for sharing Rick!😊

[@raygunsforronnie847]

Phillip Morris 100's were unfiltered. The secretary at a local radio station smoked them at her desk. Such a cloud!

[@GavinsMarineMom]

My Daddy smoked Lucky Strike. He was always pulling a piece of tobacco off his tongue. 🤢

[@theastewart6721]

@@GavinsMarineMom My husband smoked Lucky Strikes when we first met in 1973. I smoked Winstons and quickly converted him. Then we both quit. Just lost him almost 4 months, not from smoking. 51 years goes by so fast.💔

[@bejoyful]

Good interesting fact Rick; I have never smoked in my life and I watch ILL daily and am pleased that PLUTO TV shows full episodes. Freedom to choose is the important fact.

[@johnp139]

What?

[@mariannedias6698]

During the 40’s and 50’s, cigarette companies ran ads claiming that doctors recommended their products. There has always been deception in advertising!

[@61rampy65]

Doctors *did* smoke back then. Sometimes while examining the patient. There was nothing weird about that.

[@roberttelarket4934]

@mariannedias6698: Really????? You could have fooled me.

[@humdrumdontsuccumb]

I quit smoking 40 years ago when my son cried and told me I was killing myself. It took a year for the cravings to stop. When I watch old shows I am amazed at how much smoking there was. I watch episodes of Perry Mason and count the number of cigs burned. Paul Drake was a freaking chimney.

[@alexandracash8106]

I didn't know this at all. And I also didn't know about cutting out scenes with smoking. I actually couldn't remember many smoking scenes and that's obviously why.

[@paulsarnik8506]

Not the Best of ALL Time but sure laid the template! 🤓😎✌🏼

[@hugueslecorre4893]

I would like to know why a smoker would insist so much to the brand of cigarette, just one or two of other kind, out of 20 or more a day.

[@joangravitz3280]

That looks like Kirk Douglas in the chesterfield ad. Back in the day, cigarettes were promoted as a weight loss product. Love I Love Lucy. Love these videos

[@lazyhomebody1356]

All the models and actresses still smoke today

[@al007italia]

If I remember correctly, the original opening credits didn't include the heart, but actually included a mention of Philip Morris with an animated Lucy & Ricky. The heart was put in for syndication. I understand that we view smoking differently today, but the editing out of the smoking is wrong as it is rewriting history to fit someone's PC views.

[@miketype1each]

What happened then is their business; they did what they thought to do at the time, and that's all there is to it. We kids grew up around smokes and booze. It's just the way it was.

[@raveniero7615]

I swear what a coincidence I had just looked up if Ethel and Fred smoked in any other episode other then the one where the girls want to go to the nightclub

[@Jopo1226]

I don't condone smoking, but i am a smoker. I go out of my way to isolate myself from people when i smoke. However why is it that back in 40-50s days people smoked most smokers lived 70+. Lucille Ball, Bea Arthur, etc. nonsmokers die in their 50's John Ritter, Bernie Mac. It seems since we became such a sterile, clean, and health conscious society out morality rate dropped.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

George Burns smoked like a chimney and lived to 100

[@ginnamin]

Obviously you are not looking at overall population numbers associated to tobacco use deaths

[@SusanDiPaolo-g6s]

My Dad smoked Chesterfield's. He quit when I was 3 in 1960 due to severe lung infection. Rumor was also out it caused cancer!

[@sallyn2393]

Cigarettes weren’t deemed harmful back then. Crazy to think, but true. Love that you uncovered this fun piece of Lucy trivia, and I agree, nothing comes close to matching I Love Lucy as the best sitcom of all time. ♥️

[@sandrastreifel6452]

Yes, they were considered just “a bad habit”. I’m impressed with RickNineG’s research.

[@johnp139]

Who would have thought that inhaling a noxious gas would have been harmful in any way? IDIOTS!!!!

[@jehobden]

I've read in Bart Andrews' book about the show that Philip Morris execs or the ad agency president didn't want Lucy to smoke while she was pregnant during S2. Even then people knew of the harmful effects of cigarettes.

[@joangravitz3280]

@@jehobden interesting

[@ravenna53]

Quite interesting. I had no idea

[@timothyweers8054]

I remember watching a Woody Woodpecker cartoon where he was watching tv, where there was a commentary on someone smoking where they said "I don't smoke" the audience of the show and Woody booed the man making the short commentary. Even around 1966, people knew that there was an issue with smoking cigarettes, it was published in an article. The article was so small and placed strategically in a place easily missed it still took years to catch up. It was the cigarette manufacturers making money on the product, it wasn't until the mid 1980s and 1990s when they were getting heavily taxed. I kept hearing from customers of the place I worked say, when packs sell for 5.00 a pack I'm quitting, today they are 10.00+ a pack and they for the most part are still smoking and nee smokers are amongst them.

[@gnirolnamlerf593]

Funny, I was about to say that, though my parents were avid fans of _I Love Lucy_ , they were not at all moved by the commercials and continued to smoke their preferred brand, you got it, Chesterfields. I had no idea about this "secret" of Lucy's. Yes, cancer killed them both, and at rather young ages, 57 and 72. I have now outlived both of them.

[@johnp139]

I HATE ALL COMMERCIALS AND I WILL NEVER BUY ANYTHING AS A RESULT OF THE COMMERCIALS!!!

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Lucy had a heart attack---

[@roberttelarket4934]

@@lazyhomebody1356: Aggravated probably by smoking! Further even in the late 80's when she died she may have been still years later bound by contract not to disclose cause of death which may really have been smoke related so as not to further destroy the negative image of the tobacco industry.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

@@roberttelarket4934 Wow!

[@chaswr]

@@johnp139 same here. They're annoying, even more so now!

[@DMfilmfan]

I've read elsewhere that the show's scripts would avoid the use of the word "Lucky" because of Morris' competitor being named "Lucky Strike". I recall scenes involving Ricky and/or Fred eating in a nearby diner or cafe that sold magazines, smokes etc., and there was always a big poster for Philip Morris on the wall behind them. It featured that little man in the bellhop costume with the "Call for Philip Morris" slogan visible during the entire scene, lol,

[@sandrastreifel6452]

I prefer “Fawlty Towers”, but Desilu Studios were a huge success, with many hits, including “Star Trek”, another favourite of mine. At that time, just about every grown up smoked, and I grew up with parents and grandparents who smoked in the ‘60’s, though I never did. I watched my parents try every New Year to stop smoking, the suffering they went through. My mother never managed to quit completely, she died chewing nicotine gum.

[@anthonyfracchiolla2268]

lol 😂

[@sandrastreifel6452]

@@anthonyfracchiolla2268 Nothing funny about addiction, Anthony. Nicotine is one of the most addictive drugs known. Tobacco companies certainly knew this, and benefited financially!

[@walterhat1638]

I prefer to see all scenes of shows like I Love Lucy. I am tired to the government (or other editor) deciding what I can and can not see.

[@Dbodell8000]

The media are telling you how to think and people fail to see it.

[@johnp139]

I e never smoked, but IS there that much of a difference from one cigarette to another???

[@61rampy65]

Absolutely!

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Yes! I smoked during my college years

[@brianrebmann5398]

Very interesting video. I enjoy history and I Love Lucy is my favorite show, Keep up the good work

[@ricknineg]

Thank you! Will do!

[@riversarcadereview385]

i heard this over 40 years ago

[@queenmarynovelwriter5397]

I never knew that but it makes a lot of sense; people are so loyal to their cigarette brands.

[@juliemcmahan1207]

There are a lot of things that aren't good for us that are advertised on all sorts of platforms. At the time that I Love Lucy was made, it was common to smoke. There are a lot more things that are harmful that are shown on TV etc. Keep the cigarette scenes in the show! I've never smoked...

[@sandybruce9092]

I agree about not making changes to old shows because they don’t fit today’s ideas! This sounds like k e of those Woke things - making changes to suit something!

[@Pisti846]

Silly to cut out the cigarette scenes but I guess they need more commercial time.

[@sandybruce9092]

Worse than silly! It shouldn’t be allowed! I love to watch old shows and I’ve noticed that many just cut the commercials and do nit add anything else - I can live with that because most of those commercials were for cigarettes!

[@marlenepearson3936]

I was watching this yesterday, Rick. And my ride came. Just now remembered 😂 Anyway. That was very clever of Lucy to put the cigarettes 🚬 she prefered in the Phillip Morris package. Unfortunately everyone smoked back then. 😒 My Dad did. It eventually got him. I remember on What's my Line or something. The prize was a carton of cigarettes. Just give me cash 💸 💰 please. 😆 🤣 Thanks for the fun info. Young Ricky 😁

[@ddavenpAZ]

This was a fact you had brought up before in a live stream . Man I miss those live streams! Regardless, that was very clever of Lucy to sneak in her Chesterfields the way she did. One thing I’ve always wondered since you first mentioned this,was I think, (and I may be wrong) cigarettes used to have the name of the brand printed on each cigarette. So if that was the case, then Lucille Ball was even more clever in her ruse, knowing most people couldn’t see the Chesterfield logo on any of the individual cigarettes she had been smoking on their home screens. I’ve said it a million times over, I LOVE these behind the scenes stories! 😁 Great video!

[@smileysvlogs2505]

And in men get messy, they pick up a cigarette box and then Lucy’s like Yep, you get Philip and I get Morris

[@justinreagan5702]

If I am not mistaken, I think that in that era, even some doctors recommended that people smoke if they needed to calm their nerves. Andy Griffith regretted smoking on the Andy Griffith show as he didn’t realize that they would be seen like I love Lucy, for multiple decades to come. I kind of wish that the powers that be viewed glamorizing alcohol the way that they do glamorizing cigarettes.

[@kategulick4781]

I thought I was being a smart you know what when I said I bet it was the cigarette secret when I read the title. We actually have one of the old Lucy and Ricky Philip Morris ads hanging on a wall here.

[@MsSweetpea1958]

It's hard to smoke what's not your brand. I quit in the 80s and am so glad. A lot of my friends got cancer or COPD. I heard the same about Mary Tyler Moore on the early Dick Van Dyke show. They had a cigarette sponsor who gave out cartons to the cast and crew and Mary didn't like the brand and traded or sold hers to the others.

[@Bgz8890s]

I love Lucy and the Twilight Zone, enough said!

[@gailwatson4927]

I do not smoke either. Thank you for the secrets. In the 50s and 60, almost all TV shows and news featured most people smoking.

[@gerrydeviller1089]

Great video! I believe in 1 episode when Ricky's friends come from to visit from Cuba Lucy asks if they want a "Phillipo Morris" or something like that. They still air that episode on Pluto TV. I also think there is 1 Phillip Morris poster on a wall in an episode,

[@johnmcmahon13]

There is a difference in taste between Philip morris and chesterfield. Philip maurice tastes terrible and chesterfield tastes horrible

[@lazyhomebody1356]

😂

[@mikebrown5616]

To be technical, in those early years of television - as with radio before it - the corporations actually contracted with the networks to sponsor particular time slots on their schedules, and dictated what was shown in those time slots. Had the network offered Lucy/Desi anther time or another night, they would have been sponsored by Chevrolet, Proctor and Gamble or even the company that made Chesterfields. But, that half hour on that night was what was available. So they were stuck with that sponsor.

[@Greatdome99]

Watch Perry Mason some time. He drove whatever the sponsor gave him (Fords, Lincolns, Caddys. . .)

[@robertnowall488]

Mel Blanc, in his memoir, mentions that tobacco companies sponsored so many shows in the Golden Age of Radio (and early Television), and he was on so many shows during that era, that he had to keep a pack of each brand on the dash of his car so he could switch from one to the other. The companies had "Cigarette Police," so to speak, that would see that everybody was smoking their product, and confiscate other brands. Mentions particular trouble with somebody from Chesterfield.

[@roberttelarket4934]

Listen to me and Rick Nineg only! Never to advertisers or politicians!

[@jons.6216]

I mean, good for her in a way! She did what she liked. One of the funniest examples of on screen smoking came from Tallulah Bankhead in "The Celebrity Next Door"! Just take a look at the way she puffs like a dragon lady on the couch as they're talking before dinner! Haha!

[@joeanderson9852]

❤❤

[@DianeMartin-i5s]

The Greatest show of all time! YES ❤

[@PaulHarris-sl1ct]

VitaMeataVegaMin Brilliant

[@musicgtts]

Ones' demise may occur from: 1) lung cancer AND never smoked 2) cirrhosis of the liver AND never drank and on AND on no need for YES, BUT INCREASES CHANCES my parents smoked My Gma used lard AND bacon grease in ALL foods All lived 90+ years go figure

[@johnp139]

Nothing bad about lard. It was again corporate propaganda to try to change Americans diets.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

Same! They lived into their mid 90s (3 of them) They DID eat alot of fresh tomatoesl....

[@vebnew]

Okay

[@johntuttle2825]

Interesting. Did you know in an episode of Three Stooges, about the graveyard scene, Curly is in a phone booth yelling, "Phillip Morris." The guy in a black top hat says, "I'm Phillip." Curly says, "Hello, Sir." And Curly smashes his hat being scared. My parents explained to me who he was. That is interesting about Lucy. Thanks, Rick. Take care.

[@FrancescaA00]

Ohh I knew this secret. Normally you stump me. Yeah the health consequences don’t make smoking worth it. My smoking grandparents passed away due to cancer

[@TheVerbalVolley]

They could have just had Lucy smoking a cigarette without the cigarette pack being displayed. BTW, since you have totally stopped doing live streams, I am not really following you anymore. So sad, because you are very photogenic, dynamic, and knowledgeable when you do your live feeds. You really need to do things that your fans want you to do.

[@elizabethharrison7306]

I Love Lucy my favorite one fan BIG season DVD 📀 Dolls New York Jamestown Lucy Desi Museum Love my favorite one fan BIG 💖💖💖💖💖💖💖🎶🗽

[@kimberlyarlene4094]

Is this content for children? Adults don’t need a lecture on smoking. We had health class

[@trujustice8628]

Nice factoid

[@trujustice8628]

Nice factoid❤

[@alanr4447a]

I agree that I hate being around cigarette smoke. Was annoyed when going to a restaurant that had "smoking" and "non-smoking" sections, but, although seated "in" the latter section, it was so CLOSE to the other as to be just as unpleasant as being IN that section!

[@sandybruce9092]

Airplanes even had those “separate” places - doesn’t work in an enclosed tuna can!

[@mkidd8806]

They still to this day drank beer on tv, it looks like it but it's not. So who cares if the PM package had chester

[@foxgloved1]

I would have just switched out my Chesterfields in the Philip Morris packs too, no brainer I Love Lucy plays on my computer every day for at least a couple episodes from Pluto TV ❤. Chesterfield's are awfully strong cigarettes 🤢 No I did notice she never really seemed to inhale sometimes she would take it up through her nose a little bit blow it right out maybe I noticed the few times that she did smoke a Philip Morris before she switched them out I don't know

[@tigger06]

Yes, smoking was cool, came with a certain amount of prestige. I remember the cigarette commercials on tv. Marlboro Man, I'd rather fight than switch, I'd walk a mile for a Camel, to name a few. And people smoking EVERYWHERE !! Even in hospitals !!! I flew on planes when smoking was allowed after takeoff and in flight. I was a kid, not a smoker. So...years and years of second hand smoke, even at home. I did smoke myself for many years. But finally quit. Best devision I ever made. And Rick, I for sure can't stand the smell of it. At all

[@johnp139]

Darwin Award winners.

[@MsBackstager]

Shame that those heavy smokers died relatively young. If not, they would have been around to entertain us for many more years to come.

[@johnp139]

Darwin Award winners.

[@trujustice8628]

Never smoked or tried a cigarette my entire life. Neither did my mum and made folks go outside if they needed to smoke.

[@lazyhomebody1356]

George Burns?

[@MsBackstager]

@@lazyhomebody1356 Boy but was he an exception! :)

[@iloveejbgssnoopy]

I do not smoke ever in my life Rick. It broke my heart that they had to smoke. and did not like the smell of cigarettes. Lucy and Desi were amazing

[@johnp139]

Learn how to write.

[@davidjames666]

first

[@ricknineg]

You get a heart from me for that one