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Post by snsurone on Jun 20, 2018 16:13:39 GMT
I'm of the age where I can remember the saturation of cigarette ads on TV.
Their claims were that smoking made a person sexy and sophisticated, really!
Well, cigarette ads were banned on TV in 1970 (thank goodness!).
In fact, in the face of so much opposition to smoking, from the public and medical associations, did some brands cease to exist?
Are there still Old Gold, Chesterfield, Parliament, Viceroy, Alpine, or Salem?
I believe that Winston, Camel, and Marlboro are still around, and I've seen ads for Newport in magazines.
I've never smoked, so I really don't notice the shelves of cigarettes in stores.
And I haven't seen a cigarette vending machine in decades.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 20, 2018 18:08:41 GMT
Salem's slogan was "Take a puff, it's springtime" which was used for several years afterwards. The name still exists and is owned by Imperial Tobacco Group since 2015.
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Post by mattgarth on Jun 20, 2018 18:19:18 GMT
Is 'Tareyton' still around? (used to be known as 'Herbert Tareyton')
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 20, 2018 19:30:35 GMT
...here are a few:
Fatima
Spud
Omar
English Ovals
Hit Parade
Pall Mall (unfiltered in the red package)
Kool
Phillip Morris Commanders
L&M
Murad
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Post by snsurone on Jun 21, 2018 0:06:05 GMT
...here are a few: Fatima Spud Omar English Ovals Hit Parade Pall Mall (unfiltered in the red package) Kool Phillip Morris Commanders L&M Murad I remember Pall Mall (my mother smoked them when I was a kid), Kool, and L&M. I'm not familiar with the others; are they from other countries? |
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Post by vegalyra on Jun 21, 2018 16:07:34 GMT
Lucky Strike unfiltereds are still sold in the USA. Pretty limited distribution though.  |
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Post by divtal on Jun 21, 2018 17:26:43 GMT
"Have a LARK, have a LARK, have a LARK, today," was sung to the tune of The William Tell Overture.
I don't know if it still exists. I don't even see cigarette displays in the store. My corner store keeps them under the counter. And, the supermarkets don't carry them, here, because they all have pharmacies, and a law prevents them from being sold in the same business that has a pharmacy.
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 21, 2018 17:37:50 GMT
And I haven't seen a cigarette vending machine in decades. Back in the mid-1990s I went to Las Vegas for a job interview. While wandering around a casino, I came upon a cigarette machine and felt, just for an instant, that I had stepped through a wormhole and gone back in time. Even then, 20+ years ago, it was an amazing sight to see. I have been back to Vegas two or three times this century but don't remember spotting any more cigarette vending machines. |
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Post by teleadm on Jun 21, 2018 18:12:23 GMT
We used to some sort of vending machines in the streets, but they were more like little individual boxes, reminding more of a lot of small safes with very thick unbreakable glass. Those "machines" were usually paired three in a row, one had cigarettes, one had candy and chips, and one had porno magazines (!!!). We used to have very strict laws when shops were allowed to be open back then in the 1960s. So if you for some reason would run out of cigarettes, chips or certain magazines, one could always get them.
We means in Sweden, sorry didn't think about that.
A little bit OT, after my heartattack I had to go to a lot of medical check-ups at the cardiologist clinic, in their waiting-room they had a vending machine filled with all kinds of candy that I was not allowed to eat anymore, I thought it was very strange and heartless to have such a machine there.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 21, 2018 18:50:45 GMT
...all the smokes I mentioned in my post here were all sold in the US during the 1950's 1960's...
In particular, Murad was an Egyptian ciggie and English Ovals were, of course, from England...
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Post by mikef6 on Jun 21, 2018 18:59:45 GMT
...all the smokes I mentioned in my post here were all sold in the US during the 1950's 1960's... In particular, Murad was an Egyptian ciggie and English Ovals were, of course, from England... During my early days in amateur theatricals, at least once I appeared in a British play set in England where I had to light a cigarette. In an attempt to be authentic (at least more authentic than my English accent), I had to find a specialty smoke shop to buy English Ovals. They were obviously foreign. The fire sticks were more flat than the perfectly round American ciggie and they came lying down in a row in a flat box instead of standing up in a typical pack. They were unfiltered. |
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Post by jervistetch on Jun 21, 2018 19:38:07 GMT
What about Kent? Or Doral? Are they still around?
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Post by snsurone on Jun 21, 2018 21:31:35 GMT
I remember commercials for Kent that had no dialogue, just cute cartoons of people lighting up and the background tune "Happiness is...".
There were other ads without dialogue, such as for Juicy Fruit gum and Goodyear tires.
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 22, 2018 16:12:11 GMT
...along the lines of this thread, I was drafted into the US Military during the Vietnam war. At that time, ciggies were .19 cents per pack in the PX. When I mention this to my nieces and nephews today, they are incredulous. $1.90 for an entire carton of 10 packs! Today, where I live, a single pack of ciggies is about $14.00...I quit smoking in 1985...and it was the most difficult thing I ever did (I quit cold turkey) but in hindsight, smoking was the worst thing I ever did to myself...
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Post by snsurone on Jun 22, 2018 16:31:54 GMT
To be on topic for this board, during the Golden Age of Hollywood, so very many actors smoked--both on and off the screen.
Especially Humphrey Bogart and Bette Davis, except for her period pictures such as JEZEBEL and THE PRIVATE LIVES OF ELIZABETH AND ESSEX.
Even Vivien Leigh when she was making GWTW; there is hardly an off-screen photo of her without a "cancer stick".
It's been fairly recently that it was determined that smoking is addictive--too late to save the lives of the movie stars who eventually succumbed to the effects of smoking.
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Post by neurosturgeon on Jun 22, 2018 23:08:04 GMT
I took one puff of a SALEM when I was about 8 years old. Cured me of ever wanting to smoke.
I think that it was LARK that ran ads saying "show us your LARK pack." MAD MAGAZINE did a backpage spoof showing a bunch of folks showing their packs while waiting outside of a mobile chest x-ray trailer. They also had one of their fold the page ads that spoof MARLBORO cigarettes showed pack, but when the page was folded, it turned into tombstones. After that, my Mom never objected to MAD again.
I can remember the vending machines. I would buy my Dad's CAMELs for 35 cents, but he gave up smoking when I was 9.
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Post by snsurone on Jun 23, 2018 1:54:27 GMT
MAD Magazine ran some hilariously funny anti-smoking illustrations on their inside covers.
I can't say which one is the best, but my personal favorite was the spoof of Benson & Hedges commercials depicting historical characters plugging that brand of cigarette.
MAD's version depicted actor Allen Melvin as Hitler, claiming that cigarettes killed more people than he ever did.
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Post by teleadm on Jun 23, 2018 14:36:59 GMT
MAD Magazine ran some hilariously funny anti-smoking illustrations on their inside covers. I can't say which one is the best, but my personal favorite was the spoof of Benson & Hedges commercials depicting historical characters plugging that brand of cigarette. MAD's version depicted actor Allen Melvin as Hitler, claiming that cigarettes killed more people than he ever did.  |
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Post by koskiewicz on Jun 23, 2018 17:01:30 GMT
...another funny MAD ciggie spoof was for Salem..in the depiction, there was a shot of a pack of Salem floating down a river with the slogan "Salem, don't Inhalem"
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Post by snsurone on Jun 23, 2018 18:10:59 GMT
And there was another showing the grave of the Marlboro Man, with his hat and gun belt on the limb of a tree and his saddled horse grazing nearby.
In fact, most of the MAD cigarette ad spoofs depicted gravestones.
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