I modeled for 5 cigarette brands in the 80’s. We were always shown to be happy and healthy- at the beach, farmers market, poolside.

Cigarette ads are the textbook illustration of the power of advertising...in blind tests people couldn't identify their own brand, but were so attached to whatever image was shown in the spots--they'd rather fight than switch, as one of them said.

Testing lucky strike cellophane in a pool of mercury!  That lady went insane!

No wonder my life is so f*( ked up, I've been smoking the wrong cigarettes and drinking the wrong beer for 55 years.

My Dad smoked Marlboro.  It is silly now, but for a 10 year old kid, the Marlboro ads made me proud to be an American.

Burgers and Winstons - screw the fries!

2025: LGBTQ / 1955: LSMFT

TV in the 1950s and 1960s: Smoke, drink beer, and eat sugar
TV in the 1970s and 1980s: Don't smoke, but drink beer and eat sugar
TV in the 1990s and beyond: Take these unpronounceable pills to undo the effects of a lifetime of smoking, eating sugar, and drinking beer

These ads really work! I’m gonna start smoking today!

I never smoked but I got to tell you these commercial were very  entertaining 😅

OMG, remember some of these. Cannot forget "Take a puff..it's Springtime!"

I just love driving down rt.66 to buy a pack of Winstons...and a cup of coffee from Nellies groceries.
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The enhancement really helped. Some of the 50's ones looked trippy. And it's a slice of the sixties too!

These ads kick ass! They really do shit on all the YouTube ads right now. YouTube your ads suck Hippo shit

Yes. I would recommend Marlboros to all my enemies.

Oasis cigarettes were simply a mirage.   No one ever saw any for sale.

Those were the days of fun

Re the Flintstones ads: Rather ironic that all four of the main voice actors on the show (Alan Reed, Jean Vander Pyl, Mel Blanc & Bea Benaderet) died of smoking related ailments.

A cigarette commercial jingle is unforgettable.

From an alternate “smoking is healthy” universe.  Lucky universe.