Know what I miss? Cigarette ads. Not cigarettes. Just the ads. John (you all know him now, right?) and I were talking about this today and trying to remember some of the great ones. here's what we came up with:
"You've come a long way, baby" - Virginia Slims (a cigarette just for women?)
"Winston tastes good like a cigarette should" - Winston (shouldn't that be 'as a cigarette should'?)
"I'd rather fight than switch" - Taryeton (Remember the girl with the fake black eye?)
"Come to Marlboro country. Come to where the flavor is." - Marlboro (Did you know Tom Selleck was a Marlboro man?)
"I'd walk a mile for a Camel" - Camel (This one kinda worried me)
"So round, so firm, so fully packed" - Lucky Strike (This was my all-time favorite. I think there may be some country songs out with these words.)
I feel like a Lucky Strike......not like smoking one, more so round, firm, and so fully packed!
Posted by: Deuce at August 13, 2003 04:48 PMWhen it was pointed out to Winston that their grammar was bad, they countered in their commercials with, "what do you want - good grammar or good taste?" Remember that?
Posted by: Beavis at August 13, 2003 04:58 PM"A silly millimeter longer - 101." I wonder if you remember that jingle. I guess the cigerette brand was called 101 but I don't really remember for sure.
Posted by: Beavis at August 14, 2003 08:28 AMThere was more to "So round, so firm, so fully packed" . . . after that it went, "so free and easy on the draw."
There was a Merle Travis song in the 1940s that used the phrase "So round, so firm, so fully packed."
"Filters the smoke on the way to your throat".
Chesterfield cigarettes
Posted by: Johnny at October 14, 2003 02:18 PMMy "Filters the smoke . . . " post might have been L&M cigarettes. Sorry, not sure.
Posted by: Johnny at October 14, 2003 02:21 PM"I'd walk a mile for a mild, mild Camel".
Posted by: Johnny at October 14, 2003 11:32 PMHsow about those coupons you could get when you purchased cigarettes in the '50s. Think you got extra coupons if you purchased them by the carton.
Remember smoking as a young punk: Old Golds, Fatimah's, Sano's, Chesterfield's, and unfiltered Kool's (shudder!).
As a teen-ager, if I wanted to show-off (which was almost always) I would smoke English Ovals or Parliaments. But they were relatively expensive, so I usually only rarely bought them.
In the early '50s, the slickest cigarettes to have rolled up in your white T-shirt were Lucky Strike or Camels. If a guy smoked filters, we would call hima queer.
Posted by: Johnny at October 14, 2003 11:43 PM
-d: How do you feel about being Governor of Indiana?
[Buzz it]
Global Warming, my ass!
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