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| Muriel Cigars (Around the World), 1965 |
I dreamed I went around the world, flying through the air...
We think we may be collecting more Edie Adams Muriel Cigar commercials than anyplace on the web.
She's still cute as a button in this one, but it's not a particularly memorable ad.
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time 1:02 size 2.4 mb aired 1965
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| Lucky Strikes, 1954 |
Doo-dah doo-dah, doooo-dah...Luckies taste better...
Great example of fun-loving cigarettes dancing into your heart.
The female vocal sounds like Dorothy Collins of Your Hit Parade, which was sponsored by Lucky Strike Cigarettes.
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time 1:01 size 2.4 mb aired 1954
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| Edia Adams & The Hi-Lo's for Muriel, 1963 |
Get full smoking satisfaction...without inhaling.
We think this ad is from 1963, but the last line, "Get full smoking satisfaction...without inhaling" suggests it was late '60s. Then again, Edie's Marilyn Monroe impression would place it in the early 1960s.
Whatever year it was, here is Edie teaming up, once again, with The Hi-Lo's to create another classy cigar commercial.
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time 1:01 size 1.87 mb aired 1963
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| Winston (Ken Berry), 1960 |
Pure white modern filter...
We think the jazzy organ music in the middle of this one is so neat-o. We really dig it.
Yes, that's huffin'n'puffin Ken Berry before he knew he would be a Dial Soap dancer, a resident of Mayberry RFD, or a Carol Burnett regular.
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time 1:02 size 2.0 mb aired 1960
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| Lucky Strikes, 1955 |
The light time...the light place.
Here is Happy Joe Lucky again, with vocals by the gang from the 1950s TV show, Your Hit Parade.
'50s kids, like kids of today, just loved cartoons. So, it's not surprising that the cigarette companies enticed and prepped tomorrow's adults with characters like Happy Joe Lucky.
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time 1:01 size 1.5 mb aired 1955
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| L&M Cigarettes |
Let go-o-o-o...with an L&M.
A strange start to a commercial, this one is silent until about eight seconds into the ad. What do you make of a bunch of corporate types sitting around a table, looking clueless?
Once again, a catchy jingle fuses images of young and old people, smoking. And while nicotine is a stimulent, most of the images are of people relaxing.
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time 1:00 size 1.86 mb aired 196?
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| Kool Cigarettes, 1968 |
Come up to the Kool taste, the coolest taste in any cigarette.
Here we go again with the taste factor in cigarettes; this time they paired "taste" with crates and crates of tasty, healthy oranges all around the smokers.
A more suitable background would have been a dirty, dusty, dark, menacing coal mine, with the actors chomping on black carbon chunks between puffs. Too nasty?
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time 1:03 size 1.5 mb aired 1968
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| Bellaire Cigarettes (195?) |
Smoke twice as refreshed, because the filter's recessed...
We're not sure of the date on this one, too, and on second thought, it is probably from the early 1960s rather than the 1950s.
Exceptionally corny nautical theme, with the usual array of trendy young adults puffing their way into disease.
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time 1:02 size 1.52 mb aired 195?
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| Pall Mall Cigarettes, 1967 |
Outstanding...and they are mild.
We have to say it again: The cigarette corporations always associated "luxury" with smoking. In this ad, it's yachts/boating...again.
Imagine being bombarded with this drivel relentlessly, day after day. It reminds us of today's drivel from the health-insurance corporations, constantly telling us how much they love and care about us. Fool us once, shame on them. Fool us twice...the point is, you can't get fooled again. Heh, heh.
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time 0:32 size 1.0 mb ad aired in 1967
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| Muriel Cigars, Edie Adams & The Hi-Los (1965) |
Why don't you pick one up and smoke it sometime.
This one gets top honors for being one of the classiest ads ever to appear on this site.
Edie Adams (d. October 2008) was the long-time pitchwoman for Muriel Cigars, as well as sidekick for genius comedian, Ernie Kovacs. Here she performs a song and dance with The Hi-Los, another phenomenal singing group of the '50s and '60s (remember the Hertz jingle?).
NOTE: ClassicTVAds is strongly opposed to smoking all tobacco products. Don't smoke: It may kill you.
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time 1:04 size 1.6 mb aired 1965
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| Winstons with the Flintstones |
You know I never smoke nothing else.
There is something about seeing Fred and Wilma lighting up that just doesn't set right.
When it came to shamelessness, the cigarette companies knew no bounds. Sort of like oil companies today.
Here's a commercial that ran during the show, along with a "sponsored by" snippet at the end
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time 1:17 size 1.41 mb aired 1960
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| Kick the (Cigarette) Habit, 1968 |
Join the unhooked generation.
It's been many years since we've seen this ad, here at CTV. It's got that faded, scratchy-sounding, fresh from the drive-in theater flavor.
But what may seem jarring is the strong sexual innuendo portrayed by the actors. Back in the 1960s, cigarette smoking was considered enticing and seductive. So we are treated to actors fondling their cigarettes, gently caressing and stroking them...even the music--at times--suggests old stag film.
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time 1:00 size 1.8 mb aired 1968
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| Muriel Cigars (Edie Adams, Stan Getz), 1965 |
The price is only a dime.
Edie Adams, spokeswoman for Muriel Cigars, teams up with famous sax player, Stan Getz.
Getz had a lifelong problem with alcohol and narcotics addiction. He died in 1991.
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time 1:02 size 1.5 mb aired 1965
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| Tareyton, 1967 |
What gives Tareyton the taste worth fighting for?
"Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch."
Although this was a most effective slogan back in 1967, it begged the question: Fight for what?
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time 0:32 size 787 kb aired 1967
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| Winston Imitation of Marlboro |
It's still what's up front that counts.
We're assuming this ad came out after the very successful Marlboro Old West ads.
Winston got the music right, but it missed the mark with the models-turned-cowboys-cowgirls. Yes, the models are out for a day trip, but their costumes just look silly out on the dusty trail.
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time 1:05 size 2.0 mb aired 1960s
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| Muriel Cigars, The Adams Sisters, 1966-7 |
The Adams sister...Edith, Editha, and Edie.
Edie Adams made dozens of ads for Muriel Cigars, and they are among the finest jewels in broadcasting history.
Here is one with Edie playing three roles. A visitor to ClassicTVAds owns the gown in this ad, having purchased it in an estate auction last year.
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time 1:02 size 2.3 mb aired 1966
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| Marlboro Cigarettes, 195? |
Filter, flavor, flip-top box.
Marlboro was always chasing after the manly men market with ads like this one.
It's especially silly to see the four men here comparing the sizes of their sticks.
We're not sure of the air-date of this ad, but it appears to be late 1950s.
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time 1:03 size 1.5 mb aired 195?
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| 101 Chesterfield |
Is that a baloney sandwich?
One of the most insipid cigarette ads ever broadcast, with a cast of team corporate types muttering nonsense.
And they threw in the 1960s angry white woman who, as if in an alternate-universe movie, sneers, "Why don't you step on the other foot, while you're at it."
The point of this commercial is so clever and trendy, it's a mystery.
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time 1:03 size 1.9 mb aired 196?
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| His 'n Hers Raleighs...and BelAir, 1969 |
Raleighs are...Tast'n [sic] milder...
"Tast'n milder"?
These are two of the goofiest cigarette commercials we've ever seen (and we like old cigarette commercials), especially the "His" one...but the "Hers" one is just as comical. What is with the chickenish/clownish strutting?
Did we really want to be like these people in 1969? Is that what it was all about?
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time 1:05 size 1.56 mb aired 1956
His:
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| Lucky Strike (1956) |
Light up a Lucky, it's light-up time...
L.S./M.F.T...Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco. This was such an important selling point; it was used in practically every Lucky ad.
And when you think of it, it meant absolutely nothing.
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time 1:05 size 1.56 mb aired 1956
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| Camels with Vaughn Monroe |
How mild, how mild, how mild can a cigarette be?
Crooner, Vaughn Monroe and the Moonmaids made several commericals for Camel cigarettes. Monroe was a popular baritone vocalist from the World War II big-band days.
If you would like to read up on this group, there is a website dedicated to them at the Vaughn Monroe Appreciation Society.
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time 1:04 size 1.54 mb aired 1948
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Continued on page 4 of Smoke.
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