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To show us how powerful advetising is...Can you finish this Jingle? (Original Post) Stuart G Sep 2014 OP
If you recall...It is Winston Tastes Good....Like a Cigarette Should.. Stuart G Sep 2014 #1
I remember all sorts of cigarette commercials Art_from_Ark Oct 2014 #2

Stuart G

(38,726 posts)
1. If you recall...It is Winston Tastes Good....Like a Cigarette Should..
Fri Sep 12, 2014, 08:26 PM
Sep 2014

I think they took off these commercials off of TV in the very late 60s..So that one is 50 years old..but it is still embedded in my brain...

here is the correct ans...
The last cigarette commercial shown on TV in the United States was at 11:59 p.m., January 1, 1971, on the Johnny Carson Show


so...if you remember any of them..the last time you saw one was at least 43 years ago.. I remember a lot of them..very powerful ads..over and over and over.....................

Art_from_Ark

(27,247 posts)
2. I remember all sorts of cigarette commercials
Fri Oct 31, 2014, 03:09 AM
Oct 2014

"You've come a long way, baby, to get where you've got to today..." (Virginia Slims)
"Oh, the disadvantages of the new Benson and Hedges 100's..."
"Us Tareyton smokers would rather fight than switch" (always showing someone with a black eye)
"Come to where the flavor is-- come to Marlborough Country"
"I'd walk a mile for a Camel"
"You can take Salem out of the country but..."
"Bel-Air tastes right 'cause the menthol's light" (or maybe it was "tastes light 'cause the menthol's right&quot
"To a Frenchman, it's the Eiffel Tower, to a Dutchman, it's a pretty flower..." (Kent)
"A silly millimeter longer, 101" (Chesterfield 101)
"Smoke pretty-- smoke Eve"

For cigars, there were
"Hey big spender (wa wa wa wa), spend... a little dime with me" (Muriels)
"They really are masters at Dutch Masters"

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