Cigarette Advertising

[Casey]

I don't know why, but I find these radio adverts for cigarettes really hilarious. It's just strange to hear them, as I think tobacco advertising (at least on radio/TV) was banned before I was even born.

samcoley - Cigarette Advertising - SoundCloud

 

[Shadows]

lol wtf.

Yah, it took forever but they got banned b/c ppl got offended that it was obvious that they were trying to attract very young consumers.

The younger, the longer they are likely to smoke...and the older you are, either you are already smoking or you could give a rats ass by then.

I personally never smoked a cig. A black and Mild and swisher a few times but only socially.

 

[Casey]

Proof that advertising works:

Up until, oh I dunno, something like 2001/2002 - there were still billboard ads for cigarettes in this country. TV and radio ads had been banned for a long time I guess, but you'd still see these billboard advertisements whilst out and about.

I'd ALWAYS see a billboard for the brand "Lambert & Butler" on the road near to my aunts house. They used to run these comedy-adverts where there'd be a guy on one side of the billboard saying something, and a Butler/Jeeves sort of character on the other side replying with a witty remark (here's one I found on Google):

Anyway, I guess the company owned this particular billboard as it would always have their ads on it.

When I started smoking (when I was 11), the first cigarette I had was Camel brand (because I was in France with a friend and his family, and it was all they served).....but when I got back to the UK and actually habitually started smoking, for the first few years, my brand of choice was always Lambert & Butler.

 

[Jokerman]

I was in France with a friend and his family, and it was all they served

They "served" cigarettes? And to an eleven year old? "Would you like some cookies, milk, cigarettes?"

 

[Prize Gotti]

I remember the billboard ads very well, use to see them all the time. I also remember television commercials in the 80s for rolling tobacco and cigars, but never for cigs, cig ads got banned in the 60s I think.

 

[hizzle?]

Repped for Camel.

 

[Casey]

They "served" cigarettes? And to an eleven year old? "Would you like some cookies, milk, cigarettes?"

I clearly remember me and my friend buying a beer and a pack of cigarettes at the bar. They just didn't give a fuck in France I guess. I couldn't have been older than 11, because I stopped being friends with that guy not long after that.

It's tough for many Americans to understand just how liberal and lax Europe is when it comes to these kind of things.

I mean, me and my friends regularly walked into stores and bought hard alcohol from the age of 12/13. I remember smoking weed and getting drunk on lunch break from school at that age also.

And places like France are even more liberal than the UK is.

 

[masta247]

True. I was smoking when I was 14 or so and I never had a problem buying cigarettes. When I was in England they only asked me if I'm really 18 (or was 16 the legal age at that time?) and I was like "yeah" and there was no problem. Same with alcohol. I think once or twice I had to ask someone else to buy me some beers.

 

[S O F I]

Camel cigs are horrible. You can straight up feel death coming sooner each time you inhale.

 

[Flipmo]

Indeed, and it comes in the form of Enver Hoxha

 

[masta247]

Camel cigs are horrible. You can straight up feel death coming sooner each time you inhale.

Really? I like them. However I found out that cigarettes taste different everywhere as many countries have policies to use their own tobacco.

 

[S O F I]

Yeah. Marlboro cigs taste different in every country almost.