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| Tareyton Dual-Filters, 1961 |
...how nice to be greeted with your brand of smokes.
Early Tareyton ad with a jingle that will be familiar to some boomers.
Once again, we see fun and success associated with sail boats, a common theme in '60s ads. The last scene is strongly sexual...they stopped at nothing to get the younger crowd hooked.
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time 1:02 size 2.3 mb aired 1961
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| Kent Satisfies Best, 196? |
For the best combination of filter and good taste...
Another swinging Kent ad, featuring the famous Micronite filter...
...we're assuming that all the asbestos was removed from the Micronite filter by the time this ad aired.
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time 1:01 size 2.34 mb aired 196?
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| Kent (Good Thing Going) |
Light up a Kent, you got a good thing going.
Here comes Mr. Kent and Mrs. Cigarette Lighter floating into the restaurant, every bit as good and enticing as the food.
Like the "Me and My Winstons" ad on the right, Kent cigarettes also wanted to be friends with everybody, and were always the life of the party.
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time 1:01 size 2.34 mb aired 196?
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| James Arness for L&M, 196? |
Died June 3, 2011, of natural causes.
Marshall Matt Dillon, in a promo spot he did for L&M Cigarettes, a sponsor of his show Gunsmoke.
James Arness was a super nice guy. When my brothers and I were little kids, our next door neighbor--who was a female bartender--met Arness, in Detroit. She told him that she had three boys next door who were fanatical Gunsmoke fans (which was true). Arness not only gave her three autographed pictures, but he personalized each of them for us. I still have mine.
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time 0:29 size 879 kb aired 196?
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| Parliament Cigarettes, 195? |
It's the neatest one to puff...
Early Parliament ads like this one focused on how clean and pure cigarette smoking could be. All of it garbage, of course.
The jingle in this one may be vaguely familiar to some boomers. Very retro ad.
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time 1:01 size 2.39 mb aired 195?
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| Parliament Cigarettes, 196? |
The right place, the right time, the right people...
Notice how, during the shuffleboard, she knocks his puck into outer space, he cooly reacts to her uppitiness, and in the very next scene, he is blasting a skeet, which looks a lot like her puck, into smithereens.
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time 1:03 size 2.42 mb aired 196?
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| Me and My Winstons, 196? |
Yeah, me and my Winstons, we got a real good thing.
Cigarette manufacturers tried every conceivable trick in the book to compel people to smoke.
Here, Winstons become BFFs (Best Friends Forever) to the hapless man. Sure, there is a woman on the sailboat, but the man obviously prefers the friendship of his twenty little friends in the box.
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time 1:01 size 2.35 mb aired 196?
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