That "micronite" filter they're singing and talking about in the Kent cigarettes, turns out to be none other than asbestos! They were sold from 1952-1956 with asbestos in the filter!
I remember movie theatre seats had ashtrays mounted on the backs of them so to keep butts and ashes off the floor. I miss hearing the occasional click of a Zippo lighter while watching the movie!
My brother in law started to smoke on the advice of his doctor. I grew up in the 60's and 70's and the majority of people smoked. I smoked for about 3 years and in July of 1986, I threw my cigarettes out the window of my car and never touched another cigarette.
I was a kid in the 1960's, and I miss the Marlboro commercials. Cowboys, horses and the open range made me feel proud to be an American. My Dad smoked Marlboro. I sort of remember cigarette smoke and black coffee and Aqua Velva with my Dad. I wish he was here to give me some advice about life and honor and love...
I started smoking in 1965 when cigarettes were twenty five cents a pack or two dollars a carton. Kids could buy cigarettes back then. We actually had freedom.
I started smoking in 1968 at 14. Marlboro Regulars for 50¢ a pack from the vending machine at the Shell gas station. I quit at age 32 same age my parents quit. None of us had lung cancer after 18 years of puffing cancer sticks.
@@JohnSmith-cf4gn I'm sure you're very proud of how much money you've given to the tobacco companies that convinced you to start smoking in the first place, knowing that once you were addicted, you'd be giving them money constantly.
@@hebnehI quit smoking 14 years ago. I’ve been buying and selling tobacco stocks for some time with all the money I’ve saved. I’m 60 now, and even though I know cigarettes are engineered to be addictive & designed to kill, I still want to light up a cigarette. It’s diabolical, insidious and infernal. These ads were made for companies that knew, with the utmost degree of certainty , that hundreds of thousands of their customers would become sick and die if they continued to smoke.
I'm actually smoking a lucky strike right now, there a little cheaper, $ 9.50 😲, I just turned 64, I grew up as a toddler in the early 1960's with ashtrays in my face with smoldering cigs, I know I should quit but I'm an old stubborn fool.
As a kid I used to spend 5 cents of my allowance on a pack of Popeye candy cigarettes but only in the winter because then it looked like I was actually smoking. Some people were born to smoke. I have been thru every try to quit routine there is including hypnosis, patches, gum cold turkey ( by the second day even the dogs wouldn't come near me lol) lasers etc. Like yourself when my doctor gets on my case I tell him I'm stubborn not stupid. I can remember when you could smoke visiting your sick relative in the hospital or on the bus. I've read that a heroin addiction is easier to break than quitting smoking. You are not alone!
Softness, freshness, mildness, cool, smooth, refreshing - breathes in fresh air - air-softened taste - almost all these ads emphasized how the smoke was somehow rendered harmless.
This stuff was way before my time but I'm old enough to still remember ads on billboards and magazines. My mom used to smoke Salem 100's and I would steal one from her pack every so often.
Wow, "snow fresh filter cool." "I always smoke when I work, they go together." My dad smoked Salem cigarettes and back in the early 1970s, a carton cost $2.50. He burned cigarettes faster than he spent money. He had a major heart attack at age 41 and at 53 another heart attack got him for good. When I was a kid in the 60s, it seemed as though every adult in the Army smoked, including my dad. It was a normal part of life; it was no big deal. Behaviors that were normal and accepted then are not so today. The consequences of smoking for most people will, over time, catch up with them.
Yup, I do. They were white, the ends with red dye to look like they were lit. They tasted like Wintergreen flavor. You had to first break off each cigarette from it's cluster.
The smell of cigarettes makes me sick and I'm prone to allergies so I know smoking would really hinder my breathing, yet these commercials make me want to try it. These are damn effective ads.
And within about 5 years most of those women had horrible, gravelly hoarse voices; men and women’s teeth were going bad and they looked 20 years older than they were. Everything stunk of stale cigarette smoke. We couldn’t go on a plane or train without finding stale old cigarette butts in the ash trays. Nasty.
I saw an interview with a grey-haired guy who had an orange mustache on one side. Later they showed him smoking out of that side of his mouth. It was a nicotene stain.
Smoking makes me look cool, sophisticated, and kids look up to me because smoking makes me look older, like I've got everything covered, and under controll. 😎👍
You're joking, of course... You _ARE_ joking aren't you?! (It isn't always possible to discern whether or not someone is being ironic on the web!) _Isn't_ it amazing though that what you describe is _exactly_ how we thought about smoking - makes you look grown~up! Or attractive to girls (as I chose to believe!) Good Kerrist! How dumb _were_ we?! Of course, the great irony is that the law considers adults 'big enough and ugly enough' to decide for themselves if they want to ingest something addictive and harmful to them; whereas children's brains are still developing, so they need to be protected from themselves... Or to put it another way, if you see an adult smoking, that's the kind of person that can't be entrusted with the front - door key!! Incidentally, if there's one thing the cig manufacturers bang on about more than the tobacco, it's the filter... Since a filter is, by definition, something that keeps out crud, you'da thought it might behoove us to question just what is in the tobacco that makes these filters they keep on about such a necessity?! (And that's just the tobacco itself, never even mind the so~called 'texturing and flavouring agents' they add!)
Remember that as you lie dying in your hospital bed gasping for that elusive oxygen you never seem able to grasp and inhale into your narlied lung tissues. Ah, smoking does that too.
I'm guessing that you're younger than 25 or so. EVERYONE thinks that way at that age. "Nothing bad will EVER happen to ME because I'm the great ME. " Well, keep thinking like that, because there's nothing I like better than saying, "I told you so‼️" And yes, it WILL make you look older; you'll look like you're fifty when you're thirty.
@@allisoncorona84Smoking definitely ages you a lot I can attest to that personally I work with people who are in their 50’s that look 80 because of smoking
Very sorry for your loss. I've been smoking pack a day for over 30 years now and according to my doctor my heart and lungs are just fine, never had any problems. I'm not saying that smoking is good for your health at all, that's just my experience.
@@no-prophetWell there are a lot of things to consider, like how much you smoke and how deeply you breathe in. My aunt was a smoker for 70 years and lived to be 84. But she suffered badly from COPD in her later years.
@@matthewnikitas8905 I smoke a pack a day and I breathe the smoke very deep. I'm 52, and I don't even cough, not even a little bit. My MD is always in awe when he sees me. Unfortunately, my dad had real problems with his lungs, but that didn't kill him, he quit at 72, after 50 years of heavy smoking.
1:41:05- Originally seen in 1964. Of course, in his later years, Arnold Palmer- who had been a constant smoker- succcessfully won his battle against nicotine addiction, and urged people NOT to smoke or take up the habit, because he insisted smoking had a negative effect on every organ in the body. A better endorsement he made was for Arizona's "Half & Half" Iced Tea and Lemonade......which still has his name and picture on it, years after his passing.
Oddly enough a German study in the late 30s actually was first to link tobacco with health issues. By the 50s the surgeon general announced that tobacco is linked to health issues. It started to make people rethink the perception of cigarettes. Which is why by 1970, cigarette ads were banned on tv. Smoking rates started to drop, especially as the health conscious trend started to kick in by the late 70s. By the early 90s, laws came into effect regarding smoking restrictions (like where you can smoke). All of it led to the lawsuits that lead to the Master Tobacco Settlement, forcing the tobacco industry to pay fines, restitutions, and further restrictions to tobacco advertising. It also forced the tobacco industry to find anti smoking ads and projects (like Truth). However in a few years the Settlement will end. No one is sure what will happen after that. Oddly enough all the settlement did was force tobacco companies to expand into other industries and market “safer” alternatives to smoking like E-cigarettes (most e-cigarette companies are owned by tobacco companies) and it also caused several of them to merge. The decline of smoking actually killed a lot of the brands in these commercials, the companies ended up just focusing on their most popular brands. Part of what caused the decline in smoking, besides the more public knowledge of the health risks, is also the increase in taxes on tobacco (in most cases the taxes add 300-400% to the price).
Wow! What a collection. I’ve not seen a lot of these before. The good old days of soft packs and white filters (never understood the reason for the fake “cork” brown paper on the filter. I like how 100’s were called “Super King Size” lol. Salem is still my favorite although at $11 a pack I smoke less now than I used to.
The Pink Panther smoked cigarettes. I watched those cartoons as a kid. I also watched movies, commercials and people in real life smoking. I tried cigarettes a few times but never got into them for a couple of reasons: (1) they were getting expensive (2) the inconvenience (3) my parents (not smokers) would be disappointed (4) had asthma as a kid. Didn’t miss it. Didn’t want to go back to having breathing problems.
EVERYBODY (practically) smoked in the 50s and 60s. All the TV stars did....guess people thought it was sophisticated. These days it costs a small fortune.
Yeah, I generally sell about 7 cartons a day at the local high schools and Jr high schools, and about 2 cartons a week at the elementary schools. The elementary peeps buy them individually, and pay more for 'em that way.
Haven’t smoked in years, Smoking 3 pack a day, Got burnt lunges and a pacemaker, 13 to 49, smoking like hell, now I see these and still my back jaws fill tight needing a dam smoke, my lungs felt like they were sanding with 80 grits sand paper and short breaths is all I could stand, had strokes and unknown how many heat attacks, now I have 20 beats a minute and pacemaker has to do the rest, Oh well, Thank adds for the lies. I would never smoke if I’d known just how serious these we’re
36:46- PAUL FREES: (v.o.) "'I DREAM OF JEANNIE'- brought to you by............ *LARK!* The filter cigarette, that tastes 'Richly Rewarding, Uncommonly Smooth'. There is NOTHING like a Lark!" (1966)
@@ApartmentKing66 And you could have simply ignored his opinion, thereby following your own advice. But ya didn't...and here you are telling another what they could have done which would have made you happier. The Thumbs-Up & Thumbs Down is there for a reason and that reason is not about you, nor will it ever be.
BOY WERE WE CONNED ! (IF I DIDN'T KNOW BETTER, I'D SAY TRUMP HAD A HAND IN IT) 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂Sad note. I read years ago that the "Marlboro Man" actually died from Cancer.
So has a lot of other things. Like cars, alcohol, general air pollution, home accidents, industrial accidents, drug (legal and illegal) addiction, even the sun (melanoma is one of the easiest to treat cancers but it also has one of the highest mortality rates because most ignore the signs). Are we going to ban all that stuff too.
@@CamaroAmx No one said anything about banning these commercials. What I SAID was, *There's NOTHING $pecial; Or nostalgic about CANCER* Sooooo you're $aying, just because your examples ALSO cause cancer, ...we should just ignore and ENJOY these commercials of LIE$ & DEATH?! PLEASE.
@@romeocastille1690 there isn’t any nostalgic about cancer, but these commercials are more for a style of advertising that is no longer used. These are cigarette commercials but it’s the same style of advertising that was used for nearly every product commercial, wether it was laundry soap or cars or food. Whining about cigarette commercials on a video that is clearly stated that it is a cigarette commercials shows me that you either can’t read or just need to vent your personal feelings that actually have nothing to do with cigarettes or cancer. The internet and more specifically this comment section allows you to do that with minimal repercussions.
@@CamaroAmx Nice TRY, but if you want nostalgia, TRY FILM NOIR instead of preaching to cancer survivors. I'll vent WHEREVER I WANT. ...Now, collect yourself, and MOOve ON!!!
When my family moved to a small Colorado town in 1962, my mom went to work as a supervisory nurse at the local hospital. Most of the nurses smoked, except Mom and all nine of the doctors in town smoked, except one.
That was due to a survey R.J. Reynolds originally commissioned in 1946 (and similar ones followed). They claimed "113,597 doctors" had taken the survey which posed the question, "What cigarette do YOU smoke, Doctor?". In their advertising in all mediums......"The brand named most was CAMELS." Why? Because R.J. Reynolds sent free samples of Camel cigarettes to *all* 113, 597 doctors BEFORE that survey was send to them. And that survey was rigged as a result.
I do love a fresh, smooth and mellow flavor whenever I light up a healthy filtered cigarette. A flavor so smooth, you just want to burst into song everytime you inhale that refreshing, healthy smoke. Just like a night in the Alps with that clean and clear air, with the woody flavor that only a premium filtered cigarette can provide.
No one knew it was a bad thing back then and I'm a smoker Once they gain knowledge to what smoking leads too I'm sure it was hard to stop because by then most were addicted
My favorite ads were featured on 'Gunsmoke'.. It was the Marlboro man, lighting a cigarette with a flaming twig from a campfire. I thought that was so cool; when I was a smoker I tried it myself. I singed my eyebrows.
The first thing my mom did when she woke up in the morning was smoke a cigarette, she smoked a cigarette just before going to bed, and smoked all day long, but she would swear to God that she wasn't addicted. It was that kind of lifestyle that killed her 😢.
OH NOOOOO! Whenever will I learn what the exciting Old Gold announcement was..??! I suppose I'll just have to take up smoking 10 packs of Old Gold a day for a few years then it'll likely just occur to me, out of the blue... (or rather, the reddish-yellow/brown...) I especially like the guys lighting up right after stowing a crate of dynamite in their jeep...
I was one of the kids who grew up absolutely bombarded by all this advertising, constantly. At the time nobody questioned at all if children should be indoctrinated this way; it was considered normal and unremarkable. Cigarette advertising on radio and TV ended when I was 16, but I can still remember some of these slogans and musical jingles. Fortunately, all these ads didn't work on me and I always thought smoking was unpleasant and stupid.
I was born in '59 so I remember all the ads from the '60s. I also remember how smoking was common and accepted everywhere. Smokers ruled and non smokers were unusual and almost odd. This explains why even today the current crop of nicotine slaves consider their habit a historic "right" that has been wrongfully denied. There was also a PSA I recall on TV during the mid '60s where the theme was "like father - like son". It depicted a preschool boy with his dad, the boy adorably mimicked everything his dad did, then dad lit up a smoke from a pack with a large "zero" logo on the pack, and set the pack aside while enjoying his smoke. The boy inquisitively picked up the pack while dad didn't seem to be aware. With everything known today about smoking, and the tide of public opinion squarely turned against smokers with their addiction and obnoxious smoke emissions now seen as a pathetic destructive disgrace, it's amazing to me that any young people at all still pick them up.
@@onemoremisfit Here, here, bravo. Well said, Wells said. I was one of those boys. My last cigarette was when I was 49 years old. Have not smoked one since. I hope that some day cigarette smoking will be totally looked down on and that children and adults will never pick up that filthy habit.
Filters were a new thing at the time. When they first came out, they appealed to women (Marlboro was originally marketed to women). In order to increase their market share, they started to marketing to men (with the introduction of the Marlboro man). In time filtered cigarettes became the most popular version. The advantages of filtered cigarettes were a smoother inhale, no tobacco on the teeth and you could actually smoke the entire cigarette.
Filters were pushed in the 1950s as a reaction to mounting reports that linked smoking to lung cancer and heart disease. By the late 50s, most people knew smoking was bad for you. Filters were marketed as an implied magical fix, but their real purpose was to prevent smokers from panicking and doing something crazy, like quitting. Since cigarettes are all pretty much the same, filters became a way to distinguish one brand from the competition. In that regard, the most infamous was Kent with the Micronite filter- a filter made with the most deadly form of asbestos known to man.
@@CamaroAmx Good point. Never thought about filters allowing you to smoke the whole cigarette. Most of the people I knew usually just smoked them halfway down and then started a new one.
@@zaq55 they also had attachments that would let you smoke the whole cigarette. The most famous is the long stem you’d see in old films. I have a stone that you put your cigarette in and you can smoke the whole unfiltered cigarette, however its actually for joints, but it works for cigarettes.
Lucky strike was my grandfather's brand. He passed away from old age in the late 1980s. The cigarettes never killed him tho my aunt passed away from lung cancer from smoking. Some folks it's deadly to others it's not. The question is do you want to roll the dice and see if it's deadly to you.?
When I started they were 89 cents a pack and often you’d see displays with “buy one (or two) packs and get one free”. Ha! Now they’re $11 a pack. Ridiculous 😡
Marlboro used the song from The Magnificent 7 movie. It was probably the most effective and successful cigarette commercial ever. All these ads look ridiculous to me now, but back then it was just what we were used to and they actually looked like people were just being honest and genuine. Propaganda (aka commercials) has become very sophisticated these days, more natural. Still all crap.
1:02-:26- Originally seen in 1964. By the way, that St. Bernard puppy was a unique premium in Alpine's catalog of "free" gifts that season. You could have him for 18,830 "dividend coupons".
By 1955, Bob Cummings was on the air again for Winston with his second series (1955-'59). The integrated commercial here [51:35] was originally seen at the end of the episode "The Sheik" [December 29, 1955].
That was the era of social drinking and smoking. People today don't smoke because they have their cell phones Think about all the reasons people play on their phones and that was why people smoked for distraction
29:30 Bob Cummings' "MY HERO" was sponsored by Dunhill cigarettes (a Philip Morris product) in the 1952-'53 season on NBC. This integrated ad [26:30], featuring co-star Julie Bishop, is from June 1953.
While people are able to make their own decisions, I would say most of these commercials are responsible for millions of deaths sadly. Promoting these and giving the impression they were healthy.
My mother smoked 2 packs a day and my dad a pack of cigarettes and cigars. Both of them died of lung cancer and cardiac arrest. Lost my dad in 1993, my mom in 1998. Cigarettes and cigars will eventually damage your lungs, drinking alcohol will eventually damage your liver.
Very sorry to hear that it's sad because I don't think the early adopters of smoking truly knew because of lack of long term study about what the negative effects of smoking where.
