I can't believe this is what the cig ads were like.

 

   

 

               

They were brutal ads for sure, in  terms of what we now know. At the time though, the truth was just beginning to be discovered.

Have you watched these yet mighty? If not be sure you do. Pretty unbelievable stuff 😲

 

 

When I watched these documenteries...it was as if  I switched on the light bulb...

I got it !!!.....what I kept blinkered all my smoking years ...erupted before my eyes..

If was a turning point for me ...

Please if any newbies has not watched these ..they are a must ...

 

Yesterday I was browsing around on amazon video and stumbled across a nostalgia video made up entirely of old time commercials from the 50s, 60s, and I believe the early 70s.  There were several smoking ads included.  I got to admit that the animated marching Lucky Strikes was entertaining.   There were quite a few for Newport’s (which must have been new at the time, I even vaguely remember seeing those as a child)

 

if if you want to see brazen, hard sell ads for cigarettes look no further than those old American TV commercials

I don't remember ciggie ads on the telly but I do remember billboards and magazine ads. The one day cricket series used to be called the Benson and hedges but it got renamed and racing cars used to be sponsored by tobacco companies but not down here since I was a kid.

I googled this and didn't realise it was so recent that it was allowed on F1 cars. Just think of how much lobbying and kicking and screaming the tobacco companies did as they saw their ads being banned all over the place. I remember the snooker World Championships being sponsored by Benson and Hedges and the players lighting up during broadcasts.

 

"The advertising of cigarettes on Formula 1 cars has been banned since 2008. The 2008 Bahrain Grand Prix was the last time the Marlboro logo was seen on a Ferrari F1 car."

A lot of those old cigarette ads are mind-blowing.  I have seen numerous variations of ads where doctors were endorsing Camels.  Unbelievable by today's standards.

 

I started smoking around 1993 and 1994 and wasn't exposed to cigarette ads on television.  I was pretty sickened to recently see an old cigarette ad featuring The Flintstones, a cartoon I used to love when I was a kid.  Really sickening.

 

 

 

Not content simply selling poison to children, the folks at Marlboro decided it was a good idea to use babies to sell poison to adults.

1 hour ago, johnny5 said:

A lot of those old cigarette ads are mind-blowing.  I have seen numerous variations of ads where doctors were endorsing Camels.  Unbelievable by today's standards.

 

I started smoking around 1993 and 1994 and wasn't exposed to cigarette ads on television.  I was pretty sickened to recently see an old cigarette ad featuring The Flintstones, a cartoon I used to love when I was a kid.  Really sickening.

 

Oh man! Talk about advertising your cigarette brand to kids - WOW!! So Johnny. Did you end up smoking Winston's?

Just curious if this stuff had an effect on you personally?

 

 

29 minutes ago, Boo said:

Not content simply selling poison to children, the folks at Marlboro decided it was a good idea to use babies to sell poison to adults.

 

Perfect 😞 

And; what the hell does "over smoked" mean anyway? 

Edited September 24, 20196 yr by reciprocity

13 minutes ago, reciprocity said:

Oh man! Talk about advertising your cigarette brand to kids - WOW!! So Johnny. Did you end up smoking Winston's?

Just curious if this stuff had an effect on you personally?

 

I started out smoking Marlboro Reds and eventually switched down to mostly Camel Lights and Marlboro Lights stupidly believing that the "light" part made them a bit safer (another marketing trick).  Those were my three go-to brands.

 

I remember bumming a few Winstons early on but I mainly stuck with the brands I just mentioned. 

 

Doesn't matter, all cigarettes are garbage.  It is sick how big tobacco marketed them.

Edited September 24, 20196 yr by johnny5

9 hours ago, reciprocity said:

 

Perfect 😞 

And; what the hell does "over smoked" mean anyway? 

 

Over smoked is what we are....over the fact we were ever fool enough to have smoked!

G’day 

 

This is one of the adds when I first started smoking.

Recognise the bloke in the add? It’s Paul Hogen ....a long time before crocodile Dundee he was the face for Winfield cigerettes. Hard to believe they were 40c a pack. This was the world I lived in in the mid seventies, hard to imagine these days.

Chris

20 hours ago, reciprocity said:

And; what the hell does "over smoked" mean anyway? 

 

Good question.  I suppose the vultures at Marlboro were trying to tout their product's ability to poison you without you feeling like you're being poisoned.

 

When you peddle addiction and death, even the folks on Madison Avenue have a hard time polishing that turd.

22 hours ago, reciprocity said:

 

Perfect 😞 

And; what the hell does "over smoked" mean anyway? 

 

It's just a meaningless marketing term, that sounds good, like "synergy".   Lucky strikes used "it's toasted".   Toasting is a process done to all tobacco (as I understand), but hey it sounded good in a jingle.