Bad Ads, Con’t

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a silly millimeter longer (for those of you old enough – that was the Benson & Hedges cigarette ad slogan)

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9 Responses to “Bad Ads, Con’t”

  1. Dimitrios: March 1st, 2012 at 8:54 pm

    Nine out of ten doctors who have tried Camels prefer women.

  2. M. Bouffant: March 2nd, 2012 at 4:05 am

    I am enjoying a Camel as I type this.

  3. RWW: March 2nd, 2012 at 5:31 am

    Is the implication that the black smoker has more inches in his…um…cigarette?

  4. GreedOppressionPiety: March 2nd, 2012 at 6:22 am

    Who doesn’t love a smoke on the slopes? Enjoy nature and carcinogens at your leisure!
    Also it looks like she’s about to knock him off his ass.

  5. dk: March 2nd, 2012 at 9:41 am

    Actually, it was Chesterfield’s “101″ brand, one-upping B&H, which was the original 100mm brand. (They’re all still there in my head, it seems….)

  6. Bruce388: March 2nd, 2012 at 10:18 am

    You beat me to it, dk. Benson & Hedges had commercials showing the way people had to adjust to the longer cigarette. One was a dude in a VW Beetle with a bubble on the windshield to accomodate the extra length. More cancer per stick.

  7. RWW: March 2nd, 2012 at 2:24 pm

    I was only a kid when ciggy ads were banned, but I still remember them and even remember repeating the jingles. I really liked “Winston tastes good…bop..bop..like a cigarette should”. I also remember the silly millimeter ads, like the one where the elevator door closes on the guy’s cig because it’s sooo long. Haha, smoking in elevators…as if! Or the “I’d rather fight than switch” ads showing the guy with a funny black patch under his eye like he got punched. Violence and smoking – two vices in one! At least Kool had ads showing fresh air outdoor shots like a sailboat sliding across a glistening lake in the distance (and the unseen sailor coughing his lungs up). Good times!

  8. joesdaughter: March 2nd, 2012 at 4:50 pm

    RWW.

    “Call for Philllippp Mooorrrass”

    LS/MFT Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco

  9. Joe the Philosopher: March 2nd, 2012 at 11:15 pm

    Smoking and skiing: A match made in heaven.