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Broadcasters who did cigarette/cigar ads

boiseengineer said:
So glad when smoking was banned from radio studios.
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And many thought that a gold-copper color was natural to the product until they saw a new mike come out of the box with a silver-shine mike screen.

Same goes for brushed aluminum board facings... none of us wanted to clean them as it meant taking the knobs of the pots and risk brushing off the stenciled paint nomenclature for the pots and switches.
 
Mikey Radio said:
51 years ago, folks...

The very last cigarette brand ever advertised on American TV, at 11:59 p.m on January 2, 1971, during The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson. Richard Nixon had signed the Public Health Cigarette Smoking Act, which banned cigarette advertisements on broadcast media, on April 1, 1970. But it didn’t take effect immediately, the tobacco industry having managed to negotiate for itself one last chance to air commercials during the college football games of New Year’s Day 1971.
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I think on a few stations a cigarette ad snuck in after the ban. Not sure it was negligence on the board op.
 
I was watching an episode of the Twilight Zone today on Pluto TV's Sci-fi channel and it had Rod Serling doing an ad for Oasis cigarettes that was a part of the show's closing:

 
Bill Cullen would hawk for Newport cigarettes on The Price Is Right on its nighttime editions. It was his smoke of choice.
 
Here's a video with the original Phillip Morris open including the bellboy, and numerous ads and product placements in "I Love Lucy" as it originally aired.
 
Joseph_Gallant said:
Under pressure from parent groups, ABC cancelled Winston's sponsorship of "Flintstones" in 1961.

Supposedly, the reason ABC sold sponsorship to a cigarette company in the first place was that "Flintstones" was intended as a cartoon for grownups, not children, and in fact, the program aired in an 8:30 P.M. (Eastern/Pacific) timeslot in it's first three seasons before being moved to a more child friendly earlier slot.
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Thus, I assume, marking the beginning of the modern stone age prop-er-teee's image as being oriented towards minors, which it remains in the minds of many (starting with tail end boomers like me) no doubt.
 
blackgold said:
These days, the big advertisers are drug companies and car companies. Oh, yes, and beer, wine, and alcohol companies. Whenever you see the alcohol ads, you see the tag line, "Please drink responsibly," because the liquor companies don't want lawsuits from their clients.
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Something similar tags casino and lottery ads with that 800 number. If tobacco ads were still on the airwaves they would have a rapid fire tagline about the surgeon general's warning.
 
But oddly cigars and other types of tobacco were still allowed to advertise on TV until some time in the 80's. I remember seeing this ad:
 
anotherguyTN said:
But oddly cigars and other types of tobacco were still allowed to advertise on TV until some time in the 80's. I remember seeing this ad:
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Every time I see this commercial online, somehow I'm always reminded of Brokeback Mountain.

Guess it's because the guy in the cowboy hat strongly resembles Jake Gyllenhaal.

I prefer Maggie, myself
 
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