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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”.
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Oddly, there is one disease, ulcerative colitis,that smoking sometimes helpsvia the laxative effect of nicotine on the bowels.
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.)
Marching Lucky Strikes commericial 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!
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!)
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.
Wow! What a site, thanks!
Could a Camel smoker actually walk a mile?