(I didn’t really where to put this so…)
When I was a wee lad, my grandfather had a small toy wolf that smoked cigarettes. As I remember the wolf was realistic(ish) and stood about 2" tall. The cigarettes were long and thin - kind of like a toothpick. I seem to remember that it puffed?
I googled but came up snake-eyes. Does anyone remember these things? I got the impression they were the novelty gag of that time. This would have been about 50+ years ago.
My google-fu such as it is came up with this ebay item. Does it look familiar?
“Original Smoking Dog”
Maybe something along the lines of one of these?
Haven’t found a wolf yet but searching has yielded some very interesting and bizarre results, like this little smoking dachsund and a set of smoking Hanna-Barbera cartoon characters.
No Officer, those are fake cigarettes for my vintage magic smoking monkey.
Sure it wasn’t the dog?
http://www.timepassagesnostalgia.com/&pm=0&searchkeywords=Canine+Park&sin=j810
My Grandmother had one of those. I might still have it.
Well, maybe. They also had this painting:
https://tinyurl.com/5sksnfsy
So I may have conflated the two.
It’s funny, though, in my minds eye I still see it as a wolf. But the more I think about it the more I think it’s the dog.
It remind me that my grandmother also had a set of these (around the same size) in the same cabinet.
Joey_P’s first eBay link has a gif of a guy smoking.
I forgot that it blew smoke rings.
Defendants. (For the monkey version, at least.)
Not sure, but some clues from the ebay listing. You light the end and then blow it out. After that it starts making smoke rings. The smoke comes out the tip (not out of the figurine).
I wonder if it is something similar to pop pop boats. With whatever is burning in the tube building up some steam until it puffs out the end.
Watching the The Simpsons clip, it occurred to me that the ‘magic cigarettes’ might be something like a Roman candle, where it burns down and then comes to a ‘smoke charge’.
I once had a plastic bust of Beethoven that smoked regular cigarettes, blew smoke out of his nose, then started coughing (from a tiny record playing inside). It was quite marvelous, actually.
I had a small, plastic smoking Dachshund, yes, about 50 years ago; pretty sure it came out of a Cracker Jacks box. The ciggies were some kind of incense stick so I reckon it had something to do with the pot crowd. Blew smoke rings, too.
Yes, my grandfathers blew smoke rings. I suppose the point of it was similar to a Pet Rock - just curious novelty?
I remember these toys from my youth. My memory is that the paper smolders until it reaches a small piece of celluloid in the center, which then burns quickly and produces the smoke. It continues until all the paper tube has been burned.
Of course as it’s a memory from more than 65 years ago I might be wrong.
I have a smoking Cossack like this that was made in the Soviet Union.
I’ve seen a couple of variations on that toy! One (I won it at the fair when I was nine or eleven years old) was a little tiny figurine of a dog sitting upright in a chair, and the other (owned by a toy-collecting acquaintance) was a bit bigger, depicting a monkey or ape wearing a fez. They needed special cigarettes to work; I got a little pack of five with my prize dog; the guy who had the monkey said he ordered his from another vintage-toy collector). You had to put the cig in the critter’s mouth and light it for him, of course, and they were made in such a way that they would “puff” intermittently so it looked like the little dog or the fez monkey was really smoking it. They were as cute and clever as all get-out, I thought at the time, and I still do. I haven’t seen such a toy or even heard about them for many years, until just now when I read the OP.
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I was browsing through old comics online yesterday and came across this ad.
