MORE Ads of the Past That Would be BANNED Today 

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Who remembers candy cigarettes? We thought they were cool back in the day.

As someone in his mid-sixties, I can tell you that there was indeed a time when most women, being housewives in a single-income family, would have been thrilled to get an upright vacuum cleaner or a washer/dryer set for Christmas. This was a time when buying a house was affordable for even the lower middle-class, but buying appliances was often considered a luxury purchase.

I remember seeing this billboard ad for Coppertone sunblock every time my parents would take me to visit my grandmother in the neighboring town. You people know what I'm talking about -- the one with the dog tugging on the girl's bathing suit bottom to reveal her naked behind. Nobody thought anything of it at the time, but that apparently isn't the case now.

I was triggered by your assumption that thinking adults would be triggered. Also, gay meant cheerful long before it was used to mean homosexual.

I'm much more disturbed by ads today that are more of a freak show than anything else

As someone without a vacuum, I would actually really appreciate one as a Christmas present. I like practical gifts.

When I was a kid, you could get over-the-counter cough syrup that was 35% alcohol and had codeine in it. When my mother was a kid, cough syrup had tar and heroin.

Really good and very funny!!! I turned 66 yesterday (Aug 30) and remember all the cigarette ads. Both my parents were smokers and told me and my siblings not to do this. After hearing their coughing and hacking every morning.I was convinced. Never took up the.habit. Thank myself everday.

Those were the days! Grew up in the 60’s and guess what ; I didn’t grow up to be a smoker, didn’t become a bigot , didn’t become a misogynist got married at 20 and celebrating 50 years, bought my first BB gun at 8 ( mowing lawns $) was taught to shoot a .22 at 10 and didn’t grow up to be crazed shooter or shoot my eye out , nor did I grow up to be an alcoholic ( even tho commercials showed booze 🥃 between cartoons, nor did I grow up to be a bully bc of the road runner blowing up the coyote , I could go on! We did have parents that set rules and discipline, we were taught a set of right /wrong ( that will trigger some of you I’m sure) , we did have a parent at home (mom- who was scientifically/biologically a “woman”, we had parents/grandparents that taught manners & courtesy, we admired Fireman ( trigger again ), respected policeman (trigger again) , obeyed teachers and respected them or we’d got the paddle that hung up above the chalk board in the classroom! Lastly, we went to church as a family , we loved our country our flag 🇺🇸 and said the pledge with a song every morning before class started . So , it’s not the commercials, it’s not chauvinism, it’s not racism . It starts in the home, it’s starts with instilling respect for God, for country , for each other , and NOT being a victim at every turn, not realizing that biology is fact ( men cannot be woman or visa - versa ( trigger ) but fact /truth get over it, respect for those in authority , and STOP teaching our children that America is bad ! It’s the greatest country on earth. Now, I’ll just wait to get all the triggered hate mail cause I know you just can’t stand truth and want to be a victim!

I was born in 1960, I remember standing on the front seat while my mom would drive, I wanted to see better, I loved driving with mom, the only thing that bothered me was those stupid buckles at my feet getting in my way. Nobody and I mean nobody used seatbelts, you'd stuff them under the seat as much as you could.

When I was a kid in the '50s & '60s, my doctor would come in the x-am room with a cigarette hanging out of his mouth. It would fill the room with smoke while it burned away in the ashtray. The first cigarette I smoked was one of my Dad's Lucky Strikes when I was 13. Everyone smoked back then. The government supplied WWII soldiers & sailors with plenty of cigarettes for free back then.

I’m happy to have lived as a kid in some of this era life was so much better

it would be fun to put these commercials along side commercials today. There are no shortage of pharmaceutical commercials we could pick from.

2:42 What they considered "chubby" back then wouldn't get honorable mention in a fat contest nowadays.

Would it not be fascinating to see how horrified people of 100 years hence will be at our current ads and culture 🤔

Well, perhaps a few of these are a stretch when measured by todays "values." But, pound for pound, it was a happier time and everyone did not spend every waking moment trying to figure out how to be "offended" by one thing or another.

I think we need those ads back

The reason more doctors smoked Camel was not because of “kindness to the throat” but because they were kinder to the wallet. Camel donated cigarettes to VA hospitals and military hospitals. So patients who didn’t smoke, would give their free Camels to those who did. Or what was left over from those care packages, would be left on a table for anyone to take, which included a lot of Camels.

I remember as a teenager in Australia in the 70's, we used to buy a pack of cigarettes for around $1.50 and hide them under the house. Now, a pack of 25's will cost you a whopping $50+. A carton (8pks) will set you back about $400. Insane...

A time in history when people did not get offended over the smallest trivial things

Back then, they'd probably be offended at douche commercials that we show at prime time television.

And, of course, a favorite from my youth...actor Billie Dee Williams with a beautiful girl in the background advertising Colt 45 Malt Liquor. The motto of the ad campaign was "Works every time".

That Jade East ad sure brought back some memories. I used it too.

I remember some of those cigarette ads and tv commercials. Even then, my Dad who didn’t smoke cigarettes would say, “;that’s a lot of bull ! And smoking them is no damn good for anyone, plus, they stink “!

When I was a kid around 8 I bought my mom a carton of cigarettes. I never seen her laugh so hard in my life. Yes kids could buy cigarettes.

1) The ad for the "Oriental Love Ways" was published in stag magazines, and was carefully worded to avoid being hit by the obscenity police... yes, that was a thing with the Postal Service. There would also be ads for maritals aids and 'things that go buzz in the night', but say those bullet-shaped vibrating tools were for sore muscles. ;-) Now, if you mean speaking about "oriental" as something other than a rug or a soup base flavor, that I can understand, but the ad itself for what it's about, nope, it was in softcore-skin and hardcore-adventure magazines for horny men in the 1970s. Ads for sex help products nowadays are WAY more direct and blatent. 2) While I don't disagree that Lane Bryant came at people with the word "fat" and that wouldn't fly today (they'd say "plus-size" and mean the exact same thing), look up a competing company for youth called Chubettes, which put the weight-shaming right into the name. And... "She can have a tummy and still look yummy!" was their slogan, which as applied to teens and tweens (the clothing maker's demographic) truly wouldn't fly today. 3) The Ironized Yeast ad... The weight-gain product from back in the day Wate-On is still in production and advertises in women's magazines, and the 'meal supplement' Ensure serves a similar purpose without saying it so directly in daytime TV ads, but the products' ads no longer speak about desireability to the opposite sex so much as how unhealthy it is to be boney or undernourished, with the occasional prod at looking healthy to the world in general. You are right about the narrow zone in perception between anorexic and obese; judgy people are annoying. 4) Yes, Hoover is still in business, and is now a part of Milwaukee Tools. You asked.

Our current ads (such as pride and other sensitive topics) would also be treated the same thing in the future- banned due to values dissonance. You can't blame them since they have different cultures than ours today.

Products and attitudes of the past. Judging the past by modern standards is just wrong.

What do you use to get rid of whisky breath you ask ? Well, a Lucky Strike cigarette of course. I thought that would of been a no brainer.

There was a time when kids were expected to be chubby: it was a sign that you were well-fed, that your parents could take care of you. Didn't your mother tell you, "Eat! Clean your plate or no dessert. Eat! People in China are starving!" No, that last one never made sense to me at all, but she kept saying it.

Cigarettes actually did help my asthma, when my inhalers were not working. I got the idea from my mother, when my grandfather used them on her, before there were medicines for it. I wanted things like vacuums, steam irons, sewing machines, and pots and pans.

I'm eager for the day when "period panties" will be in one of these videos. Some of these old ads might be offensive, but at least they weren't disgusting and gross.

I couldn’t believe Fred Flintstones smoke cigarettes and advertise them

I had to giggle at the "Clothes for Chubbies," from Lane Bryant. It was pretty funny. As for the rest, cigarettes were often used as a prop in movies for years! Years ago, MGM gave packs of cigs for Judy Garland as part of her diet to slim down. (poor girl).

Isn't it ironic that drugs are a bigger societal problem now than when so many were available over the counter? We don't have a drug problem in the USA, we have a societal and mental health problem.

I bought my wife a new belt and a bag for Christmas - she was so pleased - and now the vacuum cleaner works like new!

You can get porn on demand nowadays but old ads offend people.

Every one of these ads are excellent. They did what they were designed to do, get the word out about their products and increase sales. Today's ads are so ineffective that most of the time I don't know what the product or service is and couldn't care less either. To be offended by these ads is to say you should grow a pair, as well as a spine, then reevaluate what makes you happy.

I’m 68 yo female… there was a Winston commercial with a beautiful brunette in a red evening gown, laying across a baby grand piano singing 🎶 Me and my Winston, we’ve got a real good thing🎶 I have no idea why that impressed me so much… so much so that I started smoking at 14 yo! And still smoke to this day!! Of course the added influence of the rich girls in my classes who pretty much did what that wanted and got what they wanted, smoked regularly!! Of course the peer pressure was tough to say no!!!

In the medicine cabinet of our family weekend Cabin, my mom kept a bottle of Paregoric, containing opium; saved for many years. She used it, as intended, to soothe the gums of my infant younger brother when he was teething. Years later, when he and I were old enough to think, 'Hey that paregoric Mom has kept includes opium! Let's try it!' She had already thrown it away.

Smoking cured my asthma. I used to have a terrible time as a kid but after I picked up smoking my asthma went away. After I gave it up I started having trouble again. I'd rather be smoke free, however. I'm getting more vitamin D in my diet, which helps a lot.

Now, if we could just see with what disdain 2092 will regard us.

Remember it goes both ways, some current commercials would totally shock and horrified people from back then, it’s difficult for people who didn’t live back then to understand, societal morals have change a lot.

Backin the late 60s and early 70s, as a Army Medic ( Aussie) we had Linctus Pholcodeine ( a raspberry flavoured Codiene based Cough Syrup) and the stronger Lin. CAMPHOR OPII ( camphorated opium)...my platoon CO was addicted to it!!! At the same time, a life long friend and O&G mentor, toldme that whilst Resident at a Famous London Hospital, the Nursing Mothers were entitled to a bottle of Guinness a day ( on the NHS) The Residents drank any left over bottles ( not all the Mothers drank)!

Until the US Surgeon General's 1964 report of the hazards of smoking, tobacco was as wholesome as broccoli in many quarters. I do remember Barney Rubble singing in the commercial, "Up front in the tobacco end the flavor comes from filter blend."

In the 1930's my mother was prescribed medicated cigarettes by an honest and degreed doctor for her breathing... It was a common thing at the time. It also got her addicted to cigarettes for at least 20 years. This was before inhalers and was thought to bring the medication directly into the lungs for better effect.

Smoking for 20 years is what gave John Wayne cancer.

Who ever thought it was a good idea for babies to drink caffeinated soda?

It is easy to judge these commercials whith the knowledge of today and I don't approve them, but from a historic point of view it is nice to know how the people lived then. And I am for sure that what we find normal today, people in 50 or 100 years from now disapprove. That has always happened in history and will still happen in the future.

Unfortunately, the "How soon is too soon?" ad is a spoof (@1:24). As discussed on StackExchange and Snopes, there was never a 'Soda Pop Board of America', and even the address is fictional. Clue: there's an internet address on the very bottom (partially cropped).

I'll vouch, Winston still tastes good like a cigarette should.

Giving a baby cola is actually an OK thing to do under certain circumstances- cola is great for tummy aches. A small 2-3 ounces of cola for a baby when they have a belly ache is actually a good thing. Even as an older child, my mother only allowed us cola as a special treat, or again if you had a belly ache. That method still works for me today- I do not drink cola by the gallon as so many people do- but as a rare treat, or will have a small glass if I have a stomach ache.

These are great. Could you also put your video links at the extreme end of your video. That way it doesn’t prevent the last part of the video from playing. Cheers

My late father once hosted a short radio show on the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation called the Sweet Cap show named for its' cigarette sponsor circa 1950. My late mother had a prescription packet of cigarettes containing a mixture of pharmaceuticals for some ailment she suffered from; also circa 1950. In those days the medical profession believed that smoking was a good thing. My parents both smoked.

I'm 62 years old and I grew up in a house full of smokers..mom,dad,four sisters. 16 years in the Navy where everyone smoked. Never smoked a cigarette in my life but I'm amazed I haven't croaked from cancer.

Some ads are indeed, quite ridiculous. But some are completely appropriate to the context of the times. The meanings of words change over time, slang words, and dialectual distinctiveness for certain groups did indeed exist, and still do. In addition, stereo-types do not always have negative connotations, and are often beneficial, and exploited, by the people about whom they’re applied.

I see things as a product of their time. Things acceptable today may well be shunned tomorrow. We just don't know what those things will be just yet.

O:47 The word "Gay" was a beautiful word used in poems and verse. It has been taken over like the word "Rainbow" by activists and we (the real people) should not let this stand and use those words in language. 1:24 Drs and Celebrities promoted smoking to open up the lungs. Believe the Science right? 1:28 Drinking Coke as a baby, again Believe the Science right? 3:24 More Drs smoke Camel cigarettes for Lung Health. Believe the Science right? 4:17 Herbs, Salt and Wine mix helped anxiety and depression. Believe the science right? 5:34 Cocaine as a cure for almost everything. Believe the science right? 5:40 For a clear complexion use Arsenic Soap. Believe the science right? 5:50 Whiskey Toothpaste. Believe the science right? 7:43 Cocaine tooth drops. Instant cure. Believe the science right? So what I am saying here is that things in the past and I note they left *Thalidomide* out here that were thought to have worked or had "the science" behind them turned out to be bad or terrible things. Think about that next when you are posed with getting a Covid Booster shot and think how in 5-10 years time people may be saying OMG how and why did they touch that experimental drug for a virus that has an overall survival rate of 99.60% and higher for younger and healthier people!

I was born in 1950 outside of Pittsburgh and Cleveland. My dad was a foreman in a steel mill. Is it any wonder I became a smoker for 30 years? I think I remember them advertising for cigarettes on Saturday morning cartoons. Then they said they couldn't advertise until the afternoon and evening hours. I drank a few six-packs of Rolling Rock and Stroh's beer, too. If you were 18 you could only drink 3.2% beer, 21 could drink 7%. Now I see these small craft beers that are 12% and 15% alcohol.

So Rock Hudson passed away and in heaven he runs Into Sammy Davis Jr. Sammy asks Rock how he came so early? Rock explains he was fighting AIDS for the last part of his life. Sammy says "Say no more.... Whether you smoke 'em or poke them, those Butts will get you every time!

Better than the sanitary pad today

Yes they still make hoover vacuum cleaners. Especially when you take into consideration that Brits use Hoovering for vacuum cleaning. Same way the US uses Kleenex for all tissues regardless of brand. One other thing I want to toss out there. As fun as these types of videos can be, it kind of sucks when we take modern attitudes or even advances in health care, and talk about how awful advertising was in the past. There will come a time in the future where some of our modern advertising tropes will be called into question. I know we're all inclusive now and whatnot, but I want anyone who sees this to start paying a bit of attention to modern "inclusive" ads. If you notice *Pretty much any time* you see an interracial couple in an advertisement, it's a black man with a white woman. In case you were unaware there was a trope that came up in "real" comedy of the past (maybe 15 years ago) about black men always dating white women. There are pretty much no ads that show a white man with a black woman. If it's interracial in that direction it's pretty much all Asian women where the male partner is white. These "woke" ads are actually just perpetuating a different set of stereotypes. Sorry to vent. Don't get me wrong I have no personal animosity to any group represented in *any* advertising. Just kind of passing along something I've noticed that may be considered problematic in 50 years or so. Sorry for venting about this. I'd also ask that you pay attention to jewelry advertising that tries to be inclusive in their messaging. Often they "unintentionally(?)" perpetuate stereotypes regarding jewelry styles and differences between blacks and whites. Just saying these are things I've observed recently. Peace. 😎

I miss paper print advertising back in the day

The advertisements were the accepted 'norms' of that time. What will precious people in say 60 years time, think of advertisement that are made now ? I am sure they will find many things unacceptable !

It's amazing the lack of common sense that adults had back then

6:35 The "Skinny and Lonely" ad was aimed at men, not women. It was a method for a man to 'pack on the lbs' or 'ad muscle'. This was sometimes called "90 lb weakling" advertising.

6:19 John Wayne, who died of lung cancer "I've been smokin 'em for 20 years.."

"you've been warned" LOL .... pfftt, i grew up in the 70s, what are you gonna show me that i haven't seen

Thank goodness today we don't have doctors promoting drugs that cause an opiod epidemic.... oh, wait.... And thank goodness today's marketing professionals are normalizing obesity, so we can all not worry about Type II diabetes, emphysema, cardiovascular disease, cancers.... Maybe it would be a good idea to pay zero attention to adverts regardless of the time period in which they are created?

My dad used to tell me his father would smoke after breakfast, lunch and dinner and would have one more before bed. He used to watch television programs that today leave out the advertisements for cigarettes and tobacco (for obvious reasons). I grew up in the nineties when the DARE program was a thing and was shown cartoons like the Flintstones that still had those cigarette ads uncut (though only once in a while, it would seem). Never smoked a cigarette in my life despite how close to it I was. Now, beer on the other hand...

I remember some of these commercials. I didn’t smoke when I was pregnant, I quit smoking with all 4 kids

Have you checked out the ads in sporting magazines for “Bare Archery “…featuring a topless young woman carrying a bow and arrows? From the late sixties or early seventies

You just gotta love being lectured and demeaned by someone that grew up "special" and never learned to try to understand something that he didn't believe in. So much foe "equality" and "inclusiveness". If you don't like it, make fun of it. Let the FLAMES begin.

I remember old tv shows when they had a commercial. A guy would walk out on a stage (like a stand up club comedian) and say "This show is brought to you by Camel cigarettes. They're great! Now back to the show"! This was the 1950 era.

I remember having surgery and you could get a smoking room. Imagine that! Light me up before you put me under.

"Science" of the day... Like "Climate Change" today.. All abuot the $$$$

Those ads shouldn’t be judged harshly from your 21st century vantage point. Rather you should instead try to understand why they thought that way. There is no need for such sarcastic, condescending attitude. They were made strictly for that time period, not ours.

I like the look of the whiskey toothpaste. What a way to start and end the day.

Nothing wrong with any of those.

I remember a children's programme called "How" in which the presenter showed kids how to light a pipe if it was windy.

My neighbor worked a job in Peru for a while, and he was telling me that Cocaine there is pretty much still a way of life, they chew it, make gum and medicines from it, and even beer. He brought me back a Cocaine beer to Canada, which he got at the airport tax free store of all places, and I swear the guy was pulling a prank on me and pissed in the bottle. I still have the bottle, but I really do not recommend the beer, yuck.

I remember hearing that people would eat parts of Egyptian mummies thinking it was a type of medicine. I think it was called mummia.

"African Americans talking in a slang accent to sell products ..." You mean like these days with rappers selling Sprite???

I got 30 cases of Chesterfield cigarettes when I was 13-years-old. They were the worst tasting cigarettes out there.

The Coppertone ad pulling down the little girl's bathing bottoms always blew my mind

For all the complaining/racial issues/false information ads/etc. that happens now, it's worthwhile to look back and see where we came from. Though sometimes I wonder if any real progress has been made or if we've even regressed since then. I'm sure we can all look at the ads we have now and say yes to both.

the Energizer battery ad of the 1980s showing a little girl saying "energize me!" would be banned for obvious reasons.

The Lane Bryant ad was interesting- specifically the model that was considered “chubby”. Today their demo/customers are 10-50X that size

There's nothing wrong with the ads not much different what they show now

When I was a child, my mother kept a bottle of cola syrup in the medicine cabinet. She gave it to us when we had nausea. A tablespoon or so in a small glass. We sipped it slowly. No ice and no water added. Definitely not soda pop or soft drink.

6:33 isn’t about the woman being to skinny. That ad us aimed at skinny men who want to put on muscle. Like the Charles Atlas ads that were in magazines and comics.

Thr baby and razor picture: dads would remove the razor and let kids copy them shaving. You turned the bottom, the top lifted and the razor was removed. They were not advocating babies use real razor blades.

The one with the baby and the razor was an absolute beauty !!. PS i`m sure some long for those days while others are glad they are well in the past. My own view is that people then and people now felt and feel just the same.

There were a few times back in the day, I would have paid double for those cocaine toothache drops

Really. This is what we have to worry about in this country. These ads that may offend people. YOU WONDER WHY OUR COUNTRY IS SCREWED UP!!!

Lucky Strick means Fine Tobacco. LSMFT. I still remember those commercials.

As a human race we should all be ashamed and embarrassed with doctors advocating smoking

I saw an old game show where they gave cigarette’s to the winners and some where athletes. Three people had to ask questions to who the right person was out of the three.

I dont think most of these were offensive!° some were dangerous due to lack of knowledge but in general, quite amusing. Bearing in mind people nowadays prefer to be offended 😅 and sometimes on someone else's behalf 😅