Vol. III: Ads of the Past That Would Be BANNED Today

[@garymccarver5006]

I was a kid in the 50s and 60s, yet here I am. Those were good times.

[@luvlols4462]

Those old cigarette commercials are no different than the ads we have for prescription drugs today.

[@PaulTheSkeptic]

Super Sexy Winston cigarettes. Side effects may include lung cancer, mouth cancer, emphysema, yellow teeth, bad breath and general malodorousness. Except read super fast.

[@skovner]

The difference is today the rx drugs need to list all the side effects. Surprising they have time for the actual commercial!

[@my2cents645]

Yea they are. Back then they were ignorant of the dangers. Today they TRYING to kill us.

[@monerz1]

The old commercials rarely had German people in them.

[@paulannable3734]

You have ads for prescription drugs?

[@jeanhansel5805]

When I was a child in the 50's, I would buy my adult brother a carton of Camel cigarettes for Christmas which had a smiling Santa on the carton, smoking a cigarette. I bought this by myself at the local drugstore!

[@fakeshemp9599]

That's awesome lol. I used to go buy my mom's cigarettes for her with nothing but a handwritten note back in the late 80s early 90s. Oh man, good times! 😂

[@TodaysDante]

@@fakeshemp9599 - Same here. In the 70's, at 12 years old, I used to go to the corner drug store and get my mother a pack of Parlaments for a quarter. No note.

[@juancana457]

Strange how a child can access 'socially acceptable' cigarettes (nicotine), or beer (alcohol) for an adult. Yet, an adult can't legally, at the 'federal' level, buy Marijuana for themselves. Points clearly to a tradition based bias, rather than reason, as the foundation of how we 'try' to control substances. How is unthinking behavior like that part of a democracy?

[@LaikaLycanthrope]

Yep, 1970s here, picking up smokes for my mom at the corner store as soon as I was old enough to cross the street (so about 4 or 5.) Well, the guy knew _I_ wasn't the one smoking them! But there _were_ a lot of 13 year old smokers around when I got to that age.

[@johnpatterson4816]

Mmm!!Vitamin Donuts!!

[@Forcemaster2000]

Perry Como lived to the age of 89, dying of alzheimers. No throat irritation for him!

[@hyliadreamer]

It's strange how some people who smoked like a chimney would somehow not get lung cancer. My stepfather's kid sister and mother both smoked as much as he did (I mention him in my own comment, as having died of lung cancer, along with my father), but his kid sister died of colon cancer, and his mother died of neglect (she survived both of them, and his nephew never bothered to check on her). Meanwhile, people who never smoked a day in their lives somehow still die of cancer, like Dana Reeve (the widow of Christopher Reeve). I just don't understand it.

[@hankkingsley9300]

Damn it Perry Como everything he did was great I really don't listen to too much music anymore but 1990s I was all on like Como and Sinatra and Dean Martin pick some what the hell let me go listen to magic moments

[@61rampy65]

@@hyliadreamer Modern propaganda would have you believe that if you smoke, you WILL die of lung cancer. It also would have you believe that not smoking will let you live forever. Neither are true.

[@stanwolenski9541]

When I was 4 or so my dad would give me $0.50 to go to the corner store and buy him two packs of Luckies. Sol, the owner, never batted an eye. In my early teens I could walk into any store and buy smokes, no questions asked. Vending machines were great to be able to buy smokes late at night.

[@thewhitewolf58]

Im so glad that cigerattes are dying out. Even if its just to be replaced by vapes and weed.

[@Zebra_3]

as a kid I went to the corner store to buy tobacco and rolling papers w/ a note from my father.

[@randy5761]

@@thewhitewolf58 yeah, nothing wrong with vapes and all their chemicals...or pot-the gateway to better and harder drugs! They are almost as bad as being vegan!

[@johncollins7062]

When I went in my neighborhood gas station for cigarettes, the owner raked off the change and threw a dollar on the counter simultaneously, with: " I will give your money back and another fifty cents, if you don't buy those cigarettes." I asked why he would do that and he replied: "I've watched all of you grow up. I picked up smoking during the war (The military provided daily cigarette rations) and it was the biggest mistake of my life. I don't want you to be that stupid too. Calling me stupid was the best thing anyone has ever done for me, family included. The world could use more G.O. "Kirk" Kirkwoods.

[@0neIntangible]

I wonder what advertising commercials presented today, are going to be looked back upon in 25 to 50 yrs, and thought of as unsafe or ludicrous, especially all of the pharmaceutical industry ads running... promising to fix everything.

[@NealVan]

Been there tried those once. I simply fell asleep. I never understood why uppers or ‘lowers’ were ever a thing. My body was fine on its own as a young person. It was a doctor who f**d me up by prescribing a drug I told him I didn’t want or need. He insisted and until that time no doctor ever hurt me. However, as the side effects kept increasing, I blame myself for not quitting, but I thought he might be correct and my body would adapt. He got the adapt part right, but it ruined my internal organs for LIFE. I was 29 and now I’m 62. That bastard too my life except didn’t kill my body. THAT is what happens when doctors stop be allowed to be doctors and retire or quit because of too many government and insurance regulations. So who do you think regular people have left if they need a doctor?

[@ecphorizer]

All the pharma ads on TV watching cable news - there's even one that lists potential side effects, including death. Holy shit! Never going to use that one.

[@garyowen9044]

“Please get your Covid-19 vaccination, and it’s triple booster today!”

[@thewhitewolf58]

@@NealVan thats a sad thing i do believe my doctor most of the times but when big phrama thinks they have a new pill that will make more money than the us mint they will pedal that shit to every doctor in town even if the side effect is drop dead in 5 years

[@0neIntangible]

@tony borelli Yes, the bizarre social manipulation ads for sure will stand out like a sore thumb as really weird.

[@loneshewolf74]

It's not so much the fact that the doctor in the Camel ad recommends cigarettes that gets me so much as the fact he's making a house call in the middle of the night. The patient probably just has the sniffles, too. Now they force a woman with a ruptured spleen in all kinds of pain and misery wait for over six hours in an ER until she freaking DIES. I hate this world.

[@rentslave]

They're ordered to first treat the illegal aliens as they're guaranteed Democratic voters.Taxpayers be damned.

[@randy5761]

Doctors here made house calls until the 70's

[@jetsons101]

This would make a "gen-Z" cry on his/her way to the cry room.

[@joeward8247]

Don’t worry. Counselors are available. 😊 1/17/23

[@dansmith16]

You mean Zee/Zey

[@jetsons101]

No, I mean "biological male" and "biological female" commonly known as XY and XX. LOL Have a great day.@@dansmith16

[@dansmith16]

@@jetsons101 Gen Z is the Zee/Zey generation.

[@jetsons101]

Only in their own minds but science is science.....@@dansmith16

[@ginac9970]

So all my ailments could have been solved by a cigarette, a throat lozenge and a spoonful of Vaseline?? Dang😂

[@jeanhansel5805]

And don't forget those vitamin donuts! LOL

[@michaeldroege1898]

Along with a smidgen of cocaine, heroin and methamphetamine. Yum.

[@hankkingsley9300]

Actually yes when America was a free country

[@whereswaldo5740]

People used to give kids Vicks Vapo-rub by mouth for congestion.

[@johnwilliams1223]

When my mother was pregnant in January of 1956 with my brother, her doctor recommended she take up smoking to stay slender throughout her pregnancy. It worked, but she was hooked after that for about 35 years. She quit cold Turkey and never did it again.?

[@stevenhoman2253]

When I was a kid with chronic asthma, sometimes I would be sitting in the doctor's waiting room, with everybody suffering from colds or the flu. The room was so smokey that it looked like a jazz club, with a haze layer almost concealing the heads of the adults. My doctor only smoked a pipe. Not swayed by advertising. It was the expected intellectual thing to do.

[@OutRAjious]

maybe the smoke killed the germs…)

[@frankgordon8829]

Both my parents were heavy smokers. We'd go on road trips with the window rolled up. It reminded me what an opium den in China would look like. My little sister & I would cough, gag & almost suffocate.

[@stevenhoman2253]

@@frankgordon8829 They were tough days for air breathing mammals.

[@darylcheshire1618]

@@frankgordon8829me too

[@kenstrauss5841]

In 1916 the isotope Radium was used in all types of products described as a health benefit ! Girls worked in factories painting radium dials on watches and gauges. 10 years later they were all dying of horrible cancers.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

True- Kurt Vonnegut wrote about that. I read how two guys were driving on the Brooklyn Queens expressway and they had a geiger counter turned on. The thing started beeping, so they drove around using it to track where the radiation was coming from. An abandoned factory in Brooklyn. They found out that it was the location of the Radium Dial Corporation where that happened.

[@HM2SGT]

Ah, the radium girls, who are still glowing and will for another 1500 years. Literally. Seriously.

[@generatorjohn4537]

The technique used was, "lip, dip, paint". These young women were actually ingesting actual Radium in their mouth. To make a fine point on the end of the paint brush they would place the brush in their mouth to produce that fine point. So sad, these women died from cancer early and suffered much.

[@hyliadreamer]

Speaking of which: The radium girls got a kick out of how the radium would make their lips glow (since they'd get a fine tip on the brush for fine detail by wetting the bristles in their mouths), and would often even use it as makeup for a laugh.

[@raallen1468]

As a kid, I lived with 2 chain smokers. I was SICK year-round, my entire childhood with headaches, "colds", pneumonia & the "flu". Was never sent to the Dr. as there was no money for that. Occasionally, we'd have a tin of Anacin in the house. Always toughed it out til the next "cold" etc. 2 weeks later. Missed SO much school. As soon as I left home right out of high school, I quit getting sick. Imagine that!

[@hydrolito]

Cigarettes stink and cause people to cough never saw any logic in people smoking. Never cared for taste of alcohol either and getting drunk also makes no sense.

[@juancana457]

PLEASE, if at all possible, have a complete physical examination, which 'MUST' include a Pulmonary Function Test, since young bodies shouldn't be exposed to smoke, especially tobacco. Further, continue to stay away from smokers. All the best 👍.

[@juancana457]

@@hydrolito Nicotine, a socially acceptable drug, providing a moderate amount of pleasure via it eliciting epinephrine, yet thats what leads to physical addiction. Booze elicits pleasure by slowing how fast, and much info goes to your cerebral cortex (front of your brain) this area determines how smart, or not so much, you are. So booze, another socially acceptable drug, is like temporary stupid juice, till go too far, God forbid. Never smoked cigarettes, wasn't worth all the various nasty baggage attached. Liquor, "I CHOOSE" to over use and caused myself dreadful losses which, painfully, resonate decades after I quit drinking. I've no right to 'tell' anyone not, or to, drink. Many have believed, falsely, booze could better their life. All the best 👍.

[@jeanhansel5805]

@@hydrolito Logic doesn't apply here. Once a person gets addicted, it's difficult to stop without some kind of help.

[@txbuzzkill6276]

So what you're saying, you was sickly... tough break, I used to go to the corner store with a note to buy my moms Pall Malls when I was six or seven. Smoked for 45 years, avg. pack and a half a day of Camel Filters. Doc's say I'm fine. 66 yr old now. Not cutting you down, just saying.

[@edsherrod5216]

I had a grandfather that smoked a pack of unfiltered camel's / or rolled his own and lived to 89.... Concerning carbonated beverages, I was born in 1957 and can recall drinking Coca Cola and iced tea when I was 6 years old. I may have had it before. I also remember cigarette vending machines and my dad giving me 35 cents to buy him a pack. For Christmas, I'd buy and give him a box of El Producto Tipparillo cigars since he liked cigars but would never buy any for himself - $3.00 a box in the 1960s. There was a truck that would come around once a month in the summer in the 70's in Louisiana and fumigate the air with some pesticide (could have been DDT) for mosquitos. It was really bad to be outside and have that truck come anywhere close to you. You'd gag for minutes after it passed.

[@johnlemoine5571]

Thanks for your words, Ed. That was my time, also. And remember the candy cigarettes? They came in several brands. If I had stored them instead, I could retire now. Thanks again.

[@roskene]

Wow, I remember going to the corner store near us without a note to buy my mother a pack of Winston’s. Sadly I lost her to lung cancer in 1980. All the adults in our family smoked like chimneys. After college when I moved to start my first job Would have an allergic reaction to cigarette smoke. I am blessed to never smoke other than 2nd hand the first 21 years of my life.

[@JST-bc5te]

I have been ariund three people who smoke and I don't and I am blessed to

[@wesmcgee1648]

My pediatrician smoked in the exam rooms in the 60s. Also, in the early 60s, you could buy Vick's formula 44 with codeine cough medicine over the counter. My mom would call ahead to one of our mom and pop grocery stores so I could pick up her cigs ( mid 60s).

[@hankkingsley9300]

Too bad it wasn't easy for you to get hooked up. WE MISSED OUT. I just want my goddamn Social Security I have spent a miserable life working for the man...actually I could shwet the MF and be just as well off at my age in Jail. Hell, better meals, better showers no bills...nobody's gonna boot pack me at my age...my life sucks what's the difference? Well, no beer but there's workarounds.

[@stefanfrankel8157]

Sigmund Freud wrote a series of three papers on the wonders of cocaine as a psychological treatment.

[@ricklambert6234]

I remember smoking in hospital waiting room,air planes, restaurants weird today though

[@ricklambert6234]

@@stefanfrankel8157 that Siggy he knew stuff

[@hankkingsley9300]

@@ricklambert6234 that really wasn't actually that long ago in the grand scheme of things

[@stevenhoman2253]

My Mother was advised to start smoking to lose weight and to calm her nerves, in the 60s. Doctors now don't seem to know anything.

[@glennso47]

My grandma was advised by a doctor to drink some beer to help with her kidney function. I have been advised to drink cranberry juice for that.

[@jimy0803]

@Steven Homan…or the doctors back then didn’t know anything. START smoking to calm nerves. 🤨 whatever. smh.

[@daniellekennedy8118]

I have very fond memories of my grandfather smoking Lucky Strikes. He was only an occasional smoke and was the smartest, wisest, kindest laid-back grandfather I could ever have wanted.

[@dbj1941]

Lucky Strikes always reminds me of the letters LSMFT on each package. Of course, being naughty we would recite LSMFT means" loose straps mean floppy titties". That's about the naughtiest we got.

[@robertpollock2037]

So was mine until he died of lung cancer at 50

[@ivanleterror9158]

The most common ad for Phillip Morris was a bell hop going through a hotel lobby paging "call for Phillip Morris".

[@sbukosky]

Little Johnny was his name.

[@stefanfrankel8157]

I remember the cigarette execs testifying before congress swearing up and down that they didn't cause cancer.

[@rbilleaud]

Well, let's be honest, those remedies containing narcotics for coughing and irritability did work. Knocked your butt out, but hey, everything has side effects.

[@gordonwelcher9598]

Allenbury's Throat Pastine Speedballs. What was the price?

[@dougthompson5449]

I had a friend named Bob who smoked 2 packs a day and lived on hot dogs and peanuts. He lived to be 92 and only died after having a bad fall while golfing.

[@collegeman1988]

Marijuana = Reefer Madness! Cigarettes = They’re magically delicious!

[@thewhitewolf58]

Was weed being illegal one of the excuses for the government to arrest hippies?

[@collegeman1988]

@@thewhitewolf58 Yes.

[@stefanfrankel8157]

@@thewhitewolf58 It didn't help that we were anti-Vietnam War during the Johnson and Nixon administrations. Gotta keep that economy rolling!

[@ricklambert6234]

u. u u marijuana smoker I I I'm......damn forgot what I was going to say🥴✌️

[@hankkingsley9300]

I thought that was frosted Lucky Charms they're evil and pernicious

[@whaheydelee]

Those folks really knew how to live back then. I miss the Kent cigarette ads with the "Micronite filter" that contained asbestos.

[@glennso47]

They did “asbestos “ they could. 😊

[@visualist6x6]

It wasn't what they could get away with back then. It was the "science" of the time.

[@daver5873]

In the 70's and 80's activists told us a 20 second cigarette commercial caused kids to smoke, today the same activist tell us the 8 hours a day of violemt video games and violence on social media has no impact on kids, go figure!

[@jeffrey-nb2ny]

at least they would most likely be outside .

[@harrylongabaugh7402]

They're also telling us to take an experimental and new "vaccine".

[@roberthill799]

"The same activist"? BS! Which "activist" today is the same one from 50 years ago who told us anything about cig ads?

[@daver5873]

@@roberthill799 Same activist, oh that would be liberals, but the sad news is how you completely ignored the analogy about violent video games that are enticing 6 year olds to shoot their teacher,

[@vespelian]

I think you mean lobbyists.

[@joeapicelli8367]

THEN: My neighbors aunt smoked Chesterfield cigarettes and lived to be 87 and didn't die of lung cancer. NOW: Be in the same room with someone who has covid and you're dead in 10 days. DDT: My friends and I would ride our bikes behind the DDT truck in the summer. I'm still here.

[@davedixon2068]

Every one of my aunts and uncles and grand parents have died of some form of cancer, and yes they all smoked in their early years though most stopped later in life. So far 2 members of my generation of my family have died both of lung cancer, both smoked, I have prostate cancer in remission at the moment, I have never smoked but literally everyone around me did, so passive smoking is a yes.

[@vish2553]

What happened to the truck driver?😅

[@MarklovesAngels]

Glad you're still here. There are those that might refute your dismissal of the serious issues but they can't because they're DEAD.

[@kenneth1755]

That part about petroleum jelly so pure you can eat it reminded me of a cold remedy my mom had. She would just slather a diaper with Vicks vapor rub and pin it to our pajamas across the chest at bedtime. That was the easy part. Then she'd put Vicks vapor rub in a teaspoon and heat till it melted. Then down the throat. The cure was you'd never again let her know you have a cold.

[@glennso47]

My mom would put Vicks on her tongue to treat a sore throat. Now Vicks has a warning not to place Vicks in your mouth. They used to recommend it for colds and sore throat’s years ago.

[@glennso47]

Vicks Vaporub doesn’t recommend heating it up since it might cause a fire.

[@olafeklund6200]

AAAAAGHHH!

[@Kurmonetics]

“Diamorphine” is better known as heroin. Hey kids, you can get your own “speedball” mix down at the local drugstore! Too bad they didn’t have Viagra back then. Tons of fun!

[@tonyn3227]

Good old days, it's how it should be today

[@angelinacamacho8575]

Yeah let's give infants liquid cocaine, morphine, and alcohol 😂

[@miketalas7998]

Yep, I grew up with those ads! Born in 1963! But I did not ever believe cigarettes, were good for you. Then I remember this Blk & Wht, PSA, Where this demolition man, set his Dynamite up for destruction, and he lit the FUSE, while sitting behind a tree for cover. Then he put a cigarette in his mouth and when he tried to lite it, he realised he used his last match to lite the fuse!!! So he chased the Lit Fuse, to try and lite his cigarette, and he only succeeded in BLOWING HISSELF UP AND DYING IN THE PROCESS!!! Now that was a Commercial that stayed with me all my LIFE!!!

[@1984potionlover]

Out of curiosity, are you Canadian? I remember that commercial psa very well. Do you remember the psa cartoon about the hotrod snow plow, which hasn't been invented then/now, so becareful driving . Watch for tha flashing blue light, and slow sown ;)

[@ozymandias7940]

Could you imagine travelling back to these days? A bottle of Coke with Cocaine in it, brushing your teeth with Whiskey toothpaste, chewing Meth lollies... Half the population would be stoned 24/7.

[@lineshaftrestorations7903]

Banning smoking on commercial airplanes and in the workplace did a lot for the moral of the non smoker. The ads for tobacco and cocaine "medicines" is most amusing. 😆

[@raymondhopwood9393]

I have an old radio app that includes "Dragnet", which was sponsored by Fatima cigarettes, talking about how they were made made smoking safer. I have a laugh every time I hear that!

[@JohnJones-oy3md]

I don't know why, but I suddenly feel like doing a line of coke, smoking an unfiltered cigarette, and playing Russian roulette with an Iver Johnson revolver.

[@godfreyberry1599]

Amazing, with all this stuff that's supposed to be bad for you - that generation appears to have lived long, happy and fruitful lives unlike today with serious health issues escalating continuously.

[@notyourtypicalwatchreview2563]

Strange, ain’t it? Maybe these ads were right, all along.

[@tomt373]

Basically it is because this generation has substituted carbohydrate laden junk foods, sweet snacks, and burger palace foods for smoking.

[@notyourtypicalwatchreview2563]

@@tomt373 perhaps smoking wasn’t as bad as they thought.

[@stadtrade102]

Be the cocaine wine 🎃

[@felistine]

😂😂

[@undergroundwarrior70]

Man I really miss the old TV cigarettes, beer and car commercials from the late 50's through the 60's back then when I was a kid. In the 60's my mom would send me to the nearest liquor store with a note with her signature to buy her a pack of Salem's. Back then they went for 35 cents.

[@starababa1985]

Beer wasn't recommended for babies, it was given to nursing mothers, to aid in milk production. This was a common practice for over a century and is still done today.

[@raallen1468]

My grandma told of drinking a shot of whiskey, waiting 1/2 hour, then breast-feeding her kids when they had "colic" to make them sleep. 😱

[@tonybarnes3658]

Isn't that where milk stout gets its name?

[@RetroJack]

Ah yes, Camel cigarettes - the only cigarettes with a picture of the factory on the box!

[@scotthutchens1203]

Back in the early 60’s when I got a cold with chest congestion or whatever, my parents gave me a dollop of Vicks®️VapoRub™️ to eat in addition to spreading it all over my chest in order for me to breath better at night. Loved it and practically begged for more.

[@ecphorizer]

Hah! In the 40s, my mother the RN at a local hospital, made a mustard plaster (basically mustard spread all over a cloth and folded over) that was placed on my chest to fix congestion, colds, impure thoughts, etc.

[@scotthutchens1203]

@@ecphorizer With mustard having the kind of fumes it does, I can understand why it was done. My daughter and ex-wife are nurses, I’ll have to ask them what they know about that.

[@JohnLee-pt5jz]

I used to hate having Vicks rubbed on my chest as a kid.

[@scotthutchens1203]

@@ElectronicMusicUnderground 😱 Didn’t know that, wasn’t involved in 90’s dance “rave ups”.

[@mbrennan459]

My dad and aunt told us grandma used to feed them Vicks when they were sick. I would fake being well if that was the remedy🤮

[@t23ev53]

Hindsight is always great but you can't judge Yesterday by today's standards

[@hyliadreamer]

Yes, you can; that's why it's being done.

[@Nitecrow314]

Yeah, things are so much better now. Big pharma pumping all the brainwashed full of f. knows what, under the pretence of protection from something with a better than 99% survival rate. Smh

[@61rampy65]

@@hyliadreamer Says the person that is surprised that smokers didn't die from lung cancer.

[@irw4350]

the most sensible comment on here

[@billysteadman399]

My sister and myself grew up in the 50s and 60s. Our parents smoked like two locomotives. It was always a joy to go to our grandparents house that was more than 500 miles away. We were trapped in the car with the "Cloud". Especially if it was cold or raining. At best if the windows were down you got ashes and fire blown to the back seat. You can't make it up😆 Ps neither one of us are smokers.

[@aj-2savage896]

Didn't Fred Flintstone also sell Winstons?

[@carlsaganlives5112]

All popular brands - in the parking lot of the quarry, no taxes, hush-hush.

[@jonnuanez7183]

As a child, I used to take notes to the local 7-11 or liquor store asking to buy cigarettes. No, they weren't for me; my babysitter smoked like a chimney. Yes, in the house a lot of times. No questions were asked by the sales clerk. Plus remember they had cig vending machines? Anyone could buy a pack

[@NorthcoastPatty]

Yep - for a quarter a pack out of the vending machine, or 17 cents from the store.

[@glennso47]

Even in the cancer ward of the hospital. 😮

[@markp0752]

Funny how all the people that used all these bad things lived better than we do now

[@stephenellis7668]

That is a matter of opinion

[@cheld67]

They also died earlier.

[@markp0752]

@@cheld67 I don’t think doing any of these things contributed to their demise

[@dont-want-no-wrench]

no, they didnt

[@louisbrown65]

@@markp0752 the billions of dollars paid out in lawsuits against the tobacco industry proves otherwise

[@FrederickFokker]

We look back at these ads and laugh at how dumb people must have been, but in 50 years we will be the dumb ones being laughed at too.

[@stevestites9762]

Qualude!!!!! I remember the 70’s fondly!!!! THOSE are the good ‘ol days!

[@daverodgers779]

If you remember the seventies, you really weren’t there.

[@hyliadreamer]

You're a barbarian.

[@carlsaganlives5112]

Yeah, getting your 'ludes right out of the medicine cabinet - not some greasy stranger lurking in the shadows. Never was such a thing anyway.

[@joeward8247]

Nothing like a “biscuit” and a bottle of Sangria.

[@incognito-yj4gu]

My wife has a baby book that belonged to her mother. It suggests removing all clothing from your baby and placing him/her in the sunshine until the skin turns a healthy pink. This is called a sunbath. The good old days weren't so good.

[@wilmawife]

I have a picture of me as a baby in 1957 or 58, and I am dark brown, being Scottish it was a result of being sat in the sun to get a "healthy " tan, I often wonder if that's why I developed scin cancer.

[@robmilne67]

Yet we survived, unlike the snowflakes of today

[@randy5761]

Actually there may be something to that as sunlight is a great source of vitamin D

[@rogerdodrill4733]

​@@robmilne67snowflake's survive til u turn up the heat, then they melt

[@jasonwildschut622]

Always thought the idea of smoking and cigarette on an airplane filled with aviation fuel is always a good idea

[@redtra236]

It's perfectly safe to smoke a cigarette on an airplane.... it's no different than doing it in a car it's not going to magically ignite the gas in the fuel tank/fuel lines/carburetor

[@randy5761]

If that scares you just think of cooking or heating your house by short-circuiting electricity! FYI, if you have electric heat or an electric stove that's what you are doing lol

[@TexasTater]

How in the world did us kids in the 50's make it? we had no bicycle helmets, breathed 2nd hand smoke, rode in cars without seatbelts, ate lead paint chips. You know the good stuff!

[@joeward8247]

We were truly free. God help our grandchildren.

[@angelinacamacho8575]

Did you try the morphine and liquid cocaine products? 😂

[@theallseeingmaster]

Fifty years ago, according to my chemistry teacher, malt in beer is a source of lactic acid, especially the dark foamy stuff from Dublin, Ireland.

[@jeremymcclary3901]

Guiness proof God LOVES the IRISH!!!!!

[@RogueRestorationsLTD]

Plenty of iron good for the blood!!

[@sdean4816]

I got a nice laugh out of your video. Thanks for putting it together and posting.

[@oo0Spyder0oo]

Well the ads have gone but drug increase and stupidity have gone up, so much for education.

[@bonitamartin4954]

In the sixties and early seventies, at our store, we sold a lot of cigarettes to little kids. It was the teens that we wouldn't sell to! They had to buy theirs from the vending machine in the laundromat.

[@michaelbiggs1254]

Makes you wonder what they are advertising now that will be looked upon in horror in 30yrs.

[@mikemalo47]

Ah , on the subject of beer for babies , it was probably safer for them then the water in those days.

[@hyliadreamer]

Not in THOSE days, no; but that was true several centuries ago.

[@randy5761]

In may places it's safer than the water NOW

[@almilhouse9059]

The cigarette ads always make me revert back to the Simpsons, all that smokey goodness

[@TV-8-301]

6:15 They sell stuff like that still; protein-filled M&M-like candy, and I'm sure that Ensure chocolate milk probably has a ton of sugar along with whatever nutrients they advertise

[@photodom2000]

I'm 64. None of these adds 'disturbed' me. Some of them did make me laugh though.

[@joeward8247]

I’m 70. None of those ads bothered me. What bothers me are the drug companies using our music to shove their products down our throats today. 1/17/23

[@photodom2000]

@@joeward8247 Except in the UK, adds for drugs/medication are banned.

[@mikeygraves16]

After hearing my old boss & his buddies constantly talk about all the different kinds of partying they did back in their day, it made me a little sad that I was born too late to ever try quaaludes 😂

[@lawrencelewis2592]

Back in the day, at a party if you had ludes, you were guaranteed to get laid.

[@tbird3187]

Qualudes we’re the bomb!!😂❤

[@taduncan6614]

Lemon 714 👍

[@mikeygraves16]

@@russell3380 Guys c'mon you're not helping lol

[@tbird3187]

@@taduncan6614 Remember AS tabs? (Soapers)?

[@socksumi]

Wow, the past must have been a really horrible time. Whereas today we know everything is so much more virtuous, especially the narrator.

[@jeremymcclary3901]

Yes, it does seem that way dosen't it....(especially that last part.)

[@russmiller7284]

Winston tastes good, like a cigarette should. 👍

[@carlsaganlives5112]

I'd rather fight than switch.... Show us your Lark!....A silly millimeter longer...I'd walk a mile for a Camel....

[@Jnyrcr39]

Was it Raleigh that said I'd rather fight than switch, the guy had a black eye, lol😀

[@russmiller7284]

@@Jnyrcr39 Tareyton.

[@carlsaganlives5112]

@@russmiller7284 Ding, ding, ding! Cigar? Cigarette?... Tiparillo...!

[@joeward8247]

@@Jnyrcr39 It was Tarreyton.

[@favoritethings3065]

Great video….I’m impressed by the research that went into this production. I grew up in the 70’s and 80’s and watched ALOT of Tom & Jerry. I assume that there were some edits, but not as many as there’s are now,

[@h5mind373]

I remember the cigarette vending machines where you pulled a knob to dispense product.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

My father had a cardboard tube that would spray DDT dust on insects. He used it to kill a bee's nest near a cellar window. Ten years later (1975?) the reside was still there. And then there's the time he bought a sheet of asbestos to put around the wood stove in the basement of our ski house. It was a hard, gray material in a 4 x 8 sheet. When he cut it, the dust was everywhere. That was in about 1973.

[@morganottlii2390]

I grew up helping repair the asbestos shingles on my parents house. I now live in a house with asbestos siding. Nobody will touch it for replacement. I did get the asbestos roof removed a few years ago, had to bury it on my land.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@morganottlii2390 I work as a boiler inspector and worked in a boiler plant for 11 years. I've seen more than my share of asbestos. I'd run into boiler mechanics that all would say how they "Used to mix asbestos in a bucket and it never did me any harm!" Then they would light a cigarette and cough for ten minutes. Those guys are all gone. But, if you leave it alone, it will leave you alone. But eventually it will have to be addressed.

[@morganottlii2390]

@@lawrencelewis2592 yeah, it's the dust that is the problem.

[@lawrencelewis2592]

@@morganottlii2390 True but it's in everything in a house built before about 1975. In the paint, in the cement, in the linoleum floors. Wrapped around pipes, in the plaster. I'm in boiler rooms every work day and I don't see it flying around in the air the way I used to about 20 years ago. As a boiler inspector working for insurance companies I would tell my bosses that we need to deal with it in a case where it's all over the place. We have to cover ourselves. But insurance policies for the boiler never cover insulation. I said to them several times that I can go in to a boiler room and sign the certificate and it's fine but if something were to happen and it got in the news, we will be on the news answering ignorant questions from the media about how we approved the boiler. Even though the boiler and machinery policy does not cover insulation, who is going to look like the bad guys? But none of the higher-ups ever wanted to deal with it because the guy who signed the certificate is the one who has to face them.

[@frederickhaaken456]

I used to walk to the gas station to buy cigarettes for my older brother. No questions were asked. It was 1979 and I was only 10 years old. Times have changed.

[@joeward8247]

Times shouldn’t have changed. The buying of cigarettes was between your brother and yourself and no one else. 1/17/23

[@Hillers62]

At 5:04 ..."Six delicious flavors"... Horehound, Kumquat, Spinach, Mushroom, Poppy, and Hemlock????

[@jurgenlauterbach7226]

I guess in 50 years people will not believe what we consider healthy today

[@nickimontie]

I'd forget my sore throat with that morphine/cocaine medication!

[@Zebra_3]

you'll be fine w/ double action medication.

[@Hutzjohn]

Which is more important -- the Congress of the United States or TV commercials? So exactly why is it OK for congress to LIE to the public but these lying commercials are banned ---- how does this make any sense?

[@craigstevens6772]

100,000 people dying from Drug OD's this year. Yeah, we are SO much smarter now, right?

[@avgguy7]

Low budget gangster movie had wounded gangster in hospital bed, cop, and doctor all smoking. Pretty funny.

[@cowboyfrankspersonalvideos8869]

When I was a baby in the early 1950's my mother feed me Pepsi in my baby bottle. She thought it was cute. I'm still having issues because of an insatiable sweet tooth, and now diabetes has hit making avoiding sugar even more dificult.

[@roberthuot7887]

My mother breast fed me through a straw.

[@hankkingsley9300]

@@roberthuot7887 straw? We would have been lucky to be breastfed thru straw...my dad had to do it. Aye, but we were happy then...tell as much to today's kids...think they'd believe it?

[@jyesucevitz]

the Flintstones pitching cigs for me was probably the worst cig ad campaign i can recall.

[@benjaminrush4443]

Absolutely love this stuff. Thanks.

[@jyesucevitz]

the no ID for cigs was legit. as a 10 or 12yo in the 1970's mom would me to the local grocery with a note and a $1 bill. I'd come back with a pack of viceroy's and spare change. which I'd eventually get back. after mom gave dad the coins and he lay down on the couch and fall asleep. next morning after he left for work I'd go through the cushions looking for that very same change. usually wound up with a few more to help top off the bag of penny candy I was going to get a bit later on.

[@nicks40]

José Carreras the singer used to take a spoonful of honey and Vaseline. Once he'd gotten over a silly little bout of leukemia ...

[@ecphorizer]

But boy, what a tenor voice. ❤

[@nicks40]

@@ecphorizer Absolutely!

[@JohnDoe-yr1ys]

What gets me is the cigarette ad that states their brand is soothing to the Adam's apple, but it shows a woman in the ad.

[@juancana457]

One of my professors suggested we, upon graduation, send a letter of gratitude to "Phillip Morris" for future business opportunities.

[@markenge9348]

I remember qualudes. We had an old doctor that prescribed them to any college kid that asked for them. One of my colleagues recommended them for your date. He said it made girls really loose. One of my girlfriends said, "Let's do some qualudes and get lewd!" She got laid so it must have worked. Bill Cosby knew about it. Look what it got him.

[@nicksothep8472]

A colleague of mine some 20 years ago (damn, time does fly!!) went with the "meth" diet, and aside getting from around 300lbs to 150, literally slicing her weight in half, she was, being generous, an absolute psycho!! 😅 The amphetamines obviously fkd her sleep cycle and wasn't unusual for her to come to work without sleeping for two or three days straight, with the worst mood EVER! 😅 Gotta say that I admire her all things considered, she set herself a goal and she did it, she went from obese to a healthy figure and also manages to keep it, and having an hormonal disfunction it ain't easy as everything she eats becomes fat. Well anyhow, I hope to see more of these as they're proper mad, and a great window to the world in which we grew up in, with smoking parents, without helmets and the rest of the silly safety gear, and countless other shit, and just to name one thing, the last flu related fever I caught was either in 1999 or 2001, granted it was a nasty one with a 40° C 🌡, which I clearly remember for the nasty nightmares it gave me. I figure more than 20 years without catching a virus is a pretty good average (and saying it out loud a great way to catch it tomorrow!! 😅), and all of my friends have a similarly strong immune system, which begs the question: what was so different up until the 80s, to give us good health regardless of all the risks we carelessly took, since one or two generations down the line they already are a lot weaker. It's certainly interesting and it would be nice knowing the actual reasons for this quite large and odd "generational gap".

[@amandahankins2731]

😆

[@k.s.k.7721]

Much of it can be explained by actual medical reporting and testing - fewer folks reported many ailments 40+ years ago. Plus the diagnostic tools/tests to pinpoint certain health conditions were not available or as widely used, and more problems were mis-diagnosed, or ignored until someone dropped dead..

[@frankgordon8829]

Look up how the old movie stars died. SO many died of throat cancer. They'd smoke unfiltered cigarettes.

[@skovner]

Back in college, I played, in an audio comedy, "Imperial Viceroy Sir Winston "lucky" Camel-filters. I believe the character died of lung cancer some time in the far future when the comedy took place,

[@barrybrindle6959]

The pharmaceutical industry hasn't changed one bit I see.

[@letsgowinnietheflu5439]

fun fact Bayer also produced zyklon b

[@denicesanders4586]

Yeah, Bayer was into a lot of Nazi experiments in WWII. Dr. Mengle had nothing on them.

[@jamesstuart3346]

1:07 That's a seriously beautiful illustration

[@mrgjg]

Very true about buying cigarettes as a child. My mom would give me .35, and off to the local drug store ALONE at 8yrs. old. Not sure what's more shocking to todays sensibilities, the cigarette purchase or the 1/4 mile walk alone to the drug store at 8 yrs. old?

[@selfdo]

It was that (1) an eight-year old could be trusted to make the trip on his own (2) folks looked out for kids, and (3) it was understood that "junior" was getting Mommy's smokes.

[@charliejoson9145]

I love your banned ads compilations. Can't understand how nicotine cigarettes can alleviate cough and if babies were fine after using the cocaine teething liquid? medicine? Edit: the diamorphine - cocaine lozanges tin had "POISON" written on the front too

[@juancana457]

Nicotine temporarily inhibits the cough reflex, at a chemological level. One of the reasons smokers desire a 'smoke' during a coughing jag.

[@hankkingsley9300]

Well we also died before complications of living past 70 kicked in...as for me kill me now. I've done everything in my life I wanted to do now I just want to kill everybody that I don't like why not be better off in jail than I am now

[@Zebra_3]

@@juancana457 Santa doesn't cough.

[@juancana457]

@@Zebra_3 How does the beloved phantom clear his throat 🤔? Also, are we aware of what's 'in' Santa's pipe, while flying over states allowing recreational use, and all of Canada?

[@Zebra_3]

@@juancana457 Santa is Canadian, and operates a sweatshop at the North Pole.

[@HM2SGT]

When you turn down the volume and mute the juvenile attempt at snark and drollery, this is actually sort of interesting.

[@ReRe-yl6dq]

and in 40 years from now, they will have our ads up showing how ridiculous so much of our food, drugs, habits are.

[@fredrickmarsiello4395]

Now, just think about how they will look at the "Woke" advertisements of today, and the people who watched them.

[@markjohansen6048]

Remember what people a few decades ago were told was "scientifically proven" when someone tells you that something today is "scientifically proven". I'm sure that a few decades from now people will be laughing just as hard at the "science" of the 2020s as we laugh at the "science" of the 1950s.

[@stevenhoman2253]

My best mate, only found pout from his mum in his late 50.s that she had to be slowly weened off heroin. Apparently, she had been administered cough medicine with Heroin as one of the major ingredients. The doctors who were aware of this had to get special dispensation from the Australian Govt. to prescribe it for her. So I am assuming that a chemist somewhere was still selling this? She was weened off it, because she couldn't be safely given any anaesthetic while on heroin, for my best mate to be born. Yes everyone smoked, and now, I find it hard to believe that a company is still making no smoking signs, when they should be making smoking permitted signs.

[@kennethgates3508]

I noticed your Lucky Strike ads used pre-WW2 packs, Lucky changed the green at the start of the war.

[@edryba4867]

That was when “Lucky Strike has gone to war!”

[@Thelby1]

Yes, but remember 7 Up was the "Un-Cola", bwa, ha, ha, ha, ha!

[@grayharker6271]

Funny how we've gone full circle. Back then adds could say ANYTHING with no consequences. Now politicians can say ANYTHING with no consequences!!

[@SkyTelligence]

@5:10 I want to get the cocaine lollipops for my kids. Can you still get them on Amazon?

[@billyg1640]

I made it to 60 years old and healthy.. regardless of the fact I still follow the time-tested practices of my childhood... Aspirin for a fever, whiskey for a cough toothache or sore throat, questionable drugs for anxiety, parties, or just for fun Meat and potatoes, Dairy, fruits and veggies for a balanced diet. 💯✌️

[@joeward8247]

Another common sense Baby Boomer. 👍 1/17/23

[@williamthethespian]

Your commentary is excellent.👍

[@Hobojoe4464]

7:00 "Milhouse likes Vaseline on toast"

[@tommytwogloves16]

Diamorphine or Diacetylmorphine HCL is better know as Heroin.

[@bob-sb2zu]

Amazing how smoking went from being the coolest thing you could do , to being treated like a pariah today

[@MAGronemeyer]

I remember when the FCC banned cigarette ads on January 1st, 1971. It's just as well, because all of the propaganda was eventually proven as bold face lies! Those ads definitely wouldn't fly today, with all of the stupid political correctness that's so prevalent today.

[@1rotbed]

Yeah, pushing a harmful pharmaceutical product could NEVER happen again. 😂

[@stefanfrankel8157]

Not to mention foods like canola oil (genetically modified rape seed oil), which causes heart valve damage. But it's high in unsaturated fat! ;o)

[@joeward8247]

Let the ads fly and try using something that no Dr or pharmacist can prescribe. COMMON SENSE. I think it has atrophied on most people but not this Baby Boomer. 😊 1/17/23

[@randy5761]

You actually think you are not being lied to today? Wow, that's a special kind of ________.