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Thu 20 Jan, 2005 11:30 pm
So, in listening to old time radio, I heard an advertisement for Fatima cigarettes.
The ad was encouraging the listeners that cigarettes make a great gift for Christmas, and Fatima comes in an attractive gold box to boot!
I just got a kick out of this...any old timers here that remember those ads first-hand?
Not Fatima but a host of other cigarette jingles echo in my mind.
In fact we had our own version of the Winston jingle
"Winston tastes bad like the one I just had
No filter no taste , just a (clap clap) 30 cent waste."
Cigarette companies donated cartons of cigs to servicemen overseas by the ton.
Bummer, edgar. In reception center, they were just passing out those little packs of four.
I certainly remember the Christmas designs on cigarette cartons. They were just soooo festive.
I have been watching a lot of films lately, some older ones. The thing that I noticed is that cigarette smoking is very prominently shown in the movies.
Yes, and it's ironic in the John Wayne flicks.
I have about 30 years of Life magazines collected and it's funny to see athletes hawking Chesterfields.
It is only in the last 15-20 years that non-smokers have had their voices heard. Up until then, one had to sit silently, sputtering and coughing, while people around you smoked up a storm.
Being an ex-smoker and a lover of old movies, my mouth just waters watching Bette Davis smoke. Boy could she SMOKE!
She put the OKIN in SMOKIN'.
I think she smoked more in "Dead Ringer" (1960, I think) than any of her younger movies. Did any male actors smoke in movies as much as she did?
Maybe Bogie and Wayne...maybe
I L O V E old movies!
I, too, noticed in the old movies everyone smoked it seems.
Especially the cool people. The Detective. The Gangster. The Modern Woman. Incidentally, no one wore seatbelts in the movies til when, the 1990s?
Anyway, it seems that to smoke was cool.
These days, it's almost like you can tell the bad guy in a movie because s/he's a smoker.
The bad guys also don't wear seatbelts in today's shows and films.
Phoenix32890 wrote:
Remember this ad?
That looks '80s. Where's the Surgeon General's Warning?
BTW, I read some of the Canadian warning labels. My favorite is: CIGARETTE SMOKING CAN KILL YOU.
Do I remember that ad? I WAS that ad!
I also remember the quip,
"I
haven't come a long way and
don't call me baby."
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