This is for the older dopers out there. Coming home from work tonight,I heard the old Marlboro theme in a radio commercial for western wear (what was the name of that theme, anyway? Wasn’t it from a movie?) and chills went down my spine.
For the record, I am a rabid anti-smoker, but I grew up in the sixties, and that theme brought back memories. I think that some of the greatest, most imaginative and most memorable ads of all time were cigarette ads:
The Marlboro Man
Benson & Hedges 100’s (ah, the disadvantages)
Doral (Taste me, taste me! George Carlin did a routine about that one.)
Until a couple of years ago, Japan still had cigarette ads on TV, and frequently used American and British actors in them. They were typically the losers who couldn’t even buy a role in the west, like Charlie Sheen, Mickey Rourke and Timothy Dalton.
Back in the 60’s there was a cartoon ad on television for cigs, Marlboro I think. The spokesman was none other than Fred Flinstone. He comes home from work, sits down in his cave and lights one up. This was a real commercial. Can you imagine something like that going on today? Fred Flinstone hawking cancer sticks? :eek: Folks would scream to high heaven!
Has anyone else ever seen that ad?
pkbites – I remember seeing a black and white Flintstones cigarette commercial in a college advertising class. It was hilarious. Fred and Barney are are about to light up when they see Wilma and Betty struggling to hang up clothes on the clothesline. Barney says that they can’t relax watching their wives do all that work, so Fred says “You’re right. Let’s go around back so we won’t have to watch them.” Then they go to the back of the house, lean against the fence and puff away.
…see it NOW at: http://www2.wi.net/~rkurer/index.htm , go about 1/5 don the page, look for "Flintstones (with Winston Commercial)
…as funny as it sounds
I remember the PSA “like father, like son?” where the kid is emulating his dad in a variety of activities. Then, the father sits down on the street curb and fires up a cig. His son picks up the pack and looks inside, then glances at his dad, then glances back at the cigarettes. the announcer repeats: “like father, like son?”
You mean, like this? Otherwise, this question is like asking me what is my favorite brand of golf club would I enjoy having swung into my groin with?
Jack Benny hawked Jell-0 and Lucky Strikes. Dale Robertson from “Wells Fargo Days” sold Pall Mall (Brother Dave did a takeoff of it).
Marlboro changed sex. It went from the feminine “You’ve Got A Lot To Like With a Marlboro” to the masculine theme from the Magnificent Seven.
Abbot and Costello were cosponsored by Camel (“More Doctors Smoke Camel Than Any Other Cigarette”).
“Do you save the Raleigh coupons?”
“How do you think I got this fishing rod and tackle box?”
SHOW US YOUR LARK PACK
Kent’s “Famous Micronite Filter” for the first several years was made of asbestos.
The astronauts air was purified by carbon stuff, which is in the Taryton filter.