Wyatt Burp
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I've had this exact magazine page of a John Wayne ad framed on my wall for twenty years just because of the irony of it. Here's a couple more similar ones.
Cowboys And Cigarettes
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Jack Flash
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I like the Christmas ads of yesteryear that showed Santa lighting up!
UncleEd
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I read Wayne smoked 5 packs of Camels a day and from what I've seen in movies like The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance he was a deep, deep, very deep inhaler who could take a drag and then let out smoke for several lines of dialog.
But the ads I was amused by most were the ones where 9 out of 10 doctors smoke.....
And I liked the dancing Chesterfield packs with those leggy dancers' gams. Smokin' hot!
But the ads I was amused by most were the ones where 9 out of 10 doctors smoke.....
And I liked the dancing Chesterfield packs with those leggy dancers' gams. Smokin' hot!
GatorFarmer
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I really miss Chesterfields. The unfiltered goodness of it. That was a fine smoke. I think that I last had some about a decade ago in Milwaukee. The current fire safe cigarettes are no good, so I smoke a pipe again.
The best medical science circa 1957 showed that smoking was not only harmless but beneficial to health....
The best medical science circa 1957 showed that smoking was not only harmless but beneficial to health....
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I like the WWII ad featuring sergeant John Agar--who has a lit cigg and is also drinking a hot cup of joe.I cant postit here soyou will have to google for it. Anyway,its one of the most iconic pieces of advertisement art ive ever seen. I THINK it was in The Saturday evening Post???????and I THINK it was done by: Norman Rockwell.
I grew up in rural Colorado before it became California East. I was a kid when the real cowhands were dying out. I now know only 2 real cowboys. The sign of a good horseman was a man that could roll a cigarette at a full gallop. I knew only one who could do this, but apparently it was a common practice in the days when a man rode a horse daily.
When I think about this I always think about the Marlboro Man. Can't remember his name but he died of lung cancer. What a shame.
I've heard it said the young people smoke to look older and more sophisticated and old people smoke to look younger and more hep. I don't know about the old people thing, I think they smoke because they always have but I'll go along with the deal on young people.
I started smoking when I was 13, sneaking cigarettes out of my parent's packs. Dad smoked Viceroys, not bad. Mom smoked Kools, YUCK!! Never like menthols.
I started off on Winstons and Marlboros but by the time I was in highschool I was smoking Pall Mall and stayed with them pretty much the whole time I smoked. They were unfiltered but very mild and I enjoyed them. I quit when I was 30, way before it was fashionable.
I can remember when I was in the service foreign cigs were 7 cents a pack and American cigs were a dime. I quit because when I was thirty I got a bad cough that I couldn't shake. Miss Pam had been after me to quit all along so I just put 'em down. First try. No gum. No patches. No hypnosis. No crutches or gimmicks of any kine. Just put 'em down and left 'em down. However I'm way too cheap to pay todays prices so I'd have quit eventually anyway about when they hit a dollar a pack.
Went a whole year without a cig. Then one night we were in a club and the Coronas were goin' down really good. I decided to reward myself for my success and decided to bum a smoke. I tapped a pal on the shoulder and he gave me one of those short Chesterfield straights. First drag nearly knocked me out of my chair. I smoked about half of it and put it out. I have smoked exactly 2 cigarettes in the 40 years since.
Now I'll puff on an occasional cigar (I don't inhale...rilly
) but I'll never smoke another cigarette.
I've heard it said the young people smoke to look older and more sophisticated and old people smoke to look younger and more hep. I don't know about the old people thing, I think they smoke because they always have but I'll go along with the deal on young people.
I started smoking when I was 13, sneaking cigarettes out of my parent's packs. Dad smoked Viceroys, not bad. Mom smoked Kools, YUCK!! Never like menthols.
I started off on Winstons and Marlboros but by the time I was in highschool I was smoking Pall Mall and stayed with them pretty much the whole time I smoked. They were unfiltered but very mild and I enjoyed them. I quit when I was 30, way before it was fashionable.
I can remember when I was in the service foreign cigs were 7 cents a pack and American cigs were a dime. I quit because when I was thirty I got a bad cough that I couldn't shake. Miss Pam had been after me to quit all along so I just put 'em down. First try. No gum. No patches. No hypnosis. No crutches or gimmicks of any kine. Just put 'em down and left 'em down. However I'm way too cheap to pay todays prices so I'd have quit eventually anyway about when they hit a dollar a pack.
Went a whole year without a cig. Then one night we were in a club and the Coronas were goin' down really good. I decided to reward myself for my success and decided to bum a smoke. I tapped a pal on the shoulder and he gave me one of those short Chesterfield straights. First drag nearly knocked me out of my chair. I smoked about half of it and put it out. I have smoked exactly 2 cigarettes in the 40 years since.
Now I'll puff on an occasional cigar (I don't inhale...rilly
) but I'll never smoke another cigarette.
I've been smoking for 30 years and my lung is o.k.! 
Head 'em up, round 'em up.....rawhide.
Head 'em up, round 'em up.....rawhide.
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Raider
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Not the same thing as an actor but I was looking at a 1991 copy of Guns and Ammo magazine today. Who did I see in the advertisement on the inside of the front cover? Joe Camel, thats who! He wore a tux and played the piano with one toe and held a cigarette in the other toe. He had shades on too. Oh for those days of yesteryear. Pretty good articles too; not like the rehashed barf that we get now. I wish I could get in my time machine and go back to 1957 and be 20 years old.
California (or anywhere else) dreaming.
Charlie
California (or anywhere else) dreaming.
Charlie
I remember being about 12 or 13 years old. I found a pack of Bull Durham and papers.
I tried to roll one, but couldn't. I asked my Dad to roll one for me.
He said I couldn't smoke until I could roll my own.
By the time I was in college I was smoking store bought smokes.
Went to work for the Police Dept. Most of the Ptlmn including me were college kids and moochin' bunch of boogers.
I decided I couldn't afford to support the whole durned department and threw a pack out the window on the midnight shift in 1966. Never touched another one.
I tried to roll one, but couldn't. I asked my Dad to roll one for me.
He said I couldn't smoke until I could roll my own.
By the time I was in college I was smoking store bought smokes.
Went to work for the Police Dept. Most of the Ptlmn including me were college kids and moochin' bunch of boogers.
I decided I couldn't afford to support the whole durned department and threw a pack out the window on the midnight shift in 1966. Never touched another one.
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When I think about this I always think about the Marlboro Man. Can't remember his name but he died of lung cancer. What a shame.
I've heard it said the young people smoke to look older and more sophisticated and old people smoke to look younger and more hep. I don't know about the old people thing, I think they smoke because they always have but I'll go along with the deal on young people.
I started smoking when I was 13, sneaking cigarettes out of my parent's packs. Dad smoked Viceroys, not bad. Mom smoked Kools, YUCK!! Never like menthols.
I started off on Winstons and Marlboros but by the time I was in highschool I was smoking Pall Mall and stayed with them pretty much the whole time I smoked. They were unfiltered but very mild and I enjoyed them. I quit when I was 30, way before it was fashionable.
I can remember when I was in the service foreign cigs were 7 cents a pack and American cigs were a dime. I quit because when I was thirty I got a bad cough that I couldn't shake. Miss Pam had been after me to quit all along so I just put 'em down. First try. No gum. No patches. No hypnosis. No crutches or gimmicks of any kine. Just put 'em down and left 'em down. However I'm way too cheap to pay todays prices so I'd have quit eventually anyway about when they hit a dollar a pack.
Went a whole year without a cig. Then one night we were in a club and the Coronas were goin' down really good. I decided to reward myself for my success and decided to bum a smoke. I tapped a pal on the shoulder and he gave me one of those short Chesterfield straights. First drag nearly knocked me out of my chair. I smoked about half of it and put it out. I have smoked exactly 2 cigarettes in the 40 years since.
Now I'll puff on an occasional cigar (I don't inhale...rilly
My dad smoked Marlboro SP? reds,mother the M--lights. The reds didnt smell so bad--but the lights always drove me out of the house they stank so much.
I remember those ads with Yul Brynner in them--especially after he did the commercial talking about them and his cancer.
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Kernel Crittenden
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When I was in college Joe Camel was at his peak. R.J. Reynolds would send sales reps to college bars and hand out little 8-packs of free cigarettes. Ten cent draws and free cigs. It's a wonder I graduated.
Later I ended up working for a company that was part of the Philip Morris empire. I did not flaunt the fact I occasionally smoked Camels... a competitor's brand (at this point preferring cigars).
PM is an extremely well run company. Did very well with their stock in my 401k. Thanks to MO, in my old age, I'll still be able to enjoy my Smith & Wessons. Quit my pack a day habit 30 years ago. Fell off the wagon a few times. Haven't had even a casual cig in at least eight years.
Later I ended up working for a company that was part of the Philip Morris empire. I did not flaunt the fact I occasionally smoked Camels... a competitor's brand (at this point preferring cigars).
PM is an extremely well run company. Did very well with their stock in my 401k. Thanks to MO, in my old age, I'll still be able to enjoy my Smith & Wessons. Quit my pack a day habit 30 years ago. Fell off the wagon a few times. Haven't had even a casual cig in at least eight years.
williamlayton
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Smoked Camels for 30 years--quit 10 years--smoke Winston now.
Blessings
Blessings
pinduck
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I was 2 to 3 pack a day Camel smoker 35 years, quit in 1989 when I retired, 81 now, haven"t smoked any since.
Glen
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My father-in-law was a flight crewman on a B-17 during the war. He got airsick on his first flight. The "cure" for motion sickness in the army was to take up smoking. He started a cigarette as soon as he got airborne and quit when he landed. Forty four years later those smokes killed the best man I ever knew 3 months before retirement.
I started smoking Lucky Strike cigarettes when I was about 14 and tried just about all brands and settled on Winston's and I quit on Feb. 14, 1992 at about 10:00 that night, cold turkey. I was 50 when I quit. Ain't it funny how you remember things like that?
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