GrandPooOfAwesome: Winston Cigarette Commercial (1961)

Saturday, June 17, 2006

Wow. Ethical marketing?

At 4:08 AM , jiggs said...: it wasn't unethical at the time. now gerber's cigarette flavored baby food on the other hand...

"made with real cigarette butts!"
At 11:15 AM , GrandPooOfAwesome said...: mmmmmmm...i think i ate that as a kid, actually.
At 9:48 AM , Scarlet Hip said...: Smoke 'em if you got 'em!
At 1:41 PM , Marti said...: I remember buying candy cigarettes (they tasted like chalk - bleh! LOL)

Yeah, in the "old days" cigatette advertising on TV was common, and like today, ad agencies wanted popular figures to use as spokepersons.

Have you seen Taylor Hicks doing the Ford commercials?
At 4:20 PM , GrandPooOfAwesome said...: i liked the candy cigarettes, then again, i'm a little f*cked up. I don't think i've seen the taylor hicks commercials, no.