# TV Party Video Vault old TV cigarette ads - An eye opener! **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [May 11, 2004, 3:36am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-party-video-vault-old-tv-cigarette-ads-an-eye-opener/244568 "2004-05-11T03:36:33Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 7\ **Page:** 2
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 12:29am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-party-video-vault-old-tv-cigarette-ads-an-eye-opener/244568/21 "2004-05-12T00:29:15Z")
[QUOTE=Governor Quinn] I have quite a few OTR shows on tape. You haven’t lived until you’ve heard someone claim that smoking is “good for digestion”. [QUOTE] Oddly, there is one disease, ulcerative colitis,[that smoking sometimes helps](http://www.crohns.org.uk/Docs/4/uc/Smoking%20and%20Ulcerative%20Colitis.html)via the laxative effect of nicotine on the bowels. ---
**Author:** ![ftg](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/ftg/32/2801_2.png) [@ftg](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/ftg)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 2:50am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-party-video-vault-old-tv-cigarette-ads-an-eye-opener/244568/22 "2004-05-12T02:50:25Z")
The Phil Silvers Show had a contract with the sponsor that somewhere in each episode someone would ask for their brand (Camel?). Some others had similar deals. Creepy when you see re-runs. At least you don’t have a main sponsor of shows anymore. Else we would have had in every episode of “Friends” one of the guys asking for a Viagra. (Scooped by **Tentacle Monster** with “I’d walk a mile for camel.” Now that’s desperate.) ---
**Author:** ![Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/m/d26b3c/32.png) [@Mr.Blue\_Sky](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Mr.Blue_Sky)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 2:56am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-party-video-vault-old-tv-cigarette-ads-an-eye-opener/244568/23 "2004-05-12T02:56:03Z")
[Marching Lucky Strikes commericial](http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=08013a&from=BA) at the Prelinger Archives. They’ve got other cigarette ads as well as other commercials. I recently burned 10 DVDs worth of stuff from that site! ---
**Author:** ![Larry\_Mudd](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/l/f14d63/32.png) [@Larry\_Mudd](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Larry_Mudd)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-party-video-vault-old-tv-cigarette-ads-an-eye-opener/244568/24 "2004-05-12T03:24:10Z")
I listen to _a lot_ of '40s and '50s radio programs. Every day. That advertising is a lot more effective than anything that they’ve got these days. When I’ve been smoking enough (of anything) to feel it, I generally think of the insult to my “T-Zone.” Thanks, Camel. (Ironically the harshest tobacco I ever smoke!) ---
**Author:** ![Enola\_Straight](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/e/dec6dc/32.png) [@Enola\_Straight](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Enola_Straight)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 3:55am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-party-video-vault-old-tv-cigarette-ads-an-eye-opener/244568/25 "2004-05-12T03:55:32Z")
They may have cut out ciggy comercials in '71, but I can clearly remember cigar and pipe tobacco tv ads in the 80s: A cigar commercial (Garcia Y Vega?) started with a Law Enforcement Agency conducting surveilance on a suspect, smoking a cigar. Suspect takes a puff, and looks at the cigar strangely, eliciting a response from the junior surveilance guy. Senior surveilance guy smokes Garcias…stating it’s “still an honest cigar.” Also remember Captain Black pipe tobacco ads shown during World Wrestling Federation shows: A James Bond type guy is facing a firing squad and is offered a last cigarette. He instead opts for his pipe, which he puff upon for such a long time that the firing squad falls asleep from boredom, aiding in his escape. ---
**Author:** ![astro](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/9dc877/32.png) [@astro](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/astro)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 4:45am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-party-video-vault-old-tv-cigarette-ads-an-eye-opener/244568/26 "2004-05-12T04:45:28Z")
> [@Mr. Blue Sky](#): > > [Marching Lucky Strikes commericial](http://www.archive.org/movies/movies-details-db.php?collection=prelinger&collectionid=08013a&from=BA) at the Prelinger Archives. > > They’ve got other cigarette ads as well as other commercials. > > I recently burned 10 DVDs worth of stuff from that site! Wow! What a site, thanks! ---
**Author:** ![Yookeroo](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/yookeroo/32/323_2.png) [@Yookeroo](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Yookeroo)\ **Post date:** [May 12, 2004, 5:00am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/tv-party-video-vault-old-tv-cigarette-ads-an-eye-opener/244568/27 "2004-05-12T05:00:34Z")
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