I can't believe the headteacher at our school in the 80s smoked a cigar around the school and the music teacher smoked a pipe ,always in his mouth , seems so strange now especially in a place like school , still I loved the smell of cigar and pipe tobacco wafting through the school
For my last two years at secondary we had double art on Friday afternoon. Our teacher (who was a total cunt) used to go to the pub for lunch and smoke his pipe during the lesson like a beagle in a laboratory on the fire escape stairs. He smoked that much, causing such a stink, that on his many trips to the loo we would skin up some red leb and no one had a clue. His name was Swarbrick and hopefully the pipe did for lungs and his attitude did for his relationships and he died alone on a ward, with pampers on sucking ready break thru a straw. Wanker.
I always loved the one's where Russ Abbott would put the record player into the water, playing des o'connor records and the fish would jump out into the net. Genius adverts. 😂
If I recall I think also actor Gregor Fisher aka also known as sitcom character Rab C Nesbitt also appeared in a Hamlet ad and if I recall correctly there was a sitcom spin off called the Baldy Man who Gregor Fisher also played
Yeah, I think (possibly) the ad featuring Gregor Fisher on this compilation was a spin-off from the Baldyman character that was in a comedy sketch show. I'll have to look this up.
Love these. Remind me of my old Latin teacher who used to smoke a pipe in class and my dad who smoked Hamlets at Christmas and then went onto a pipe when he was trying to give up cigarettes in the 80s! 😆
Wished I'd never started smoking but I tend to need them now more than ever the trouble is everyone looks down their noses at you I wished we could go back in time where pubs had smoke rooms
Wish we could go back in time for reasons of today. I would think that the kids and young adults nowadays, will not have the quality of life as we did. At 64 and with what's happening now, I am glad I smoked, drank and freely enjoyed a good life. One thing is for sure, those days will never come around again.
@@mmwaashumslowww7167 Yes i remember going to the pub with mum, dad, uncles and aunts, all smoked all drank and all enjoyed themselves, very happy days for me as well, also they would go to the horse racing, i remember how dad and uncle would be so exited when they won on a bet, dad would smoke cigars , uncle smoked a pipe, i loved the smell of it, and your right those days will never come again, and those sort of people will never exist again, but i have my memories.
Silk Cut cinema ad. Totally un pc but very funny. Also i remember a cigar that came with its own plastic holder bolted on but cannot remember the name.
As I'm seeing only one cigarette ad here (I presume a cinema ad), what was the evolution of UK broadcast tobacco advertising? In the US, cigarette commercials were banned (but not in print) in early 1971, while cigars, pipe tobacco and chew commercials could still be shown on a limited basis, mostly just during sports broadcasts, until 1986. Seeing this and other '70s UK ad compilations, it looks like the regulations were somewhat similar at that time.
I was waiting for the comb over guy in the hamlett ad 🤣 The player in the last benson and hedges ad who won the poker game was he the guy who played the equalizer ?
I can't imagine how a tobacco advert in 2023 (if they were still a thing) could promote the environment. "Our nicotine clouds poison your friends and family less than those other brands!" ?? Maybe? 🤣
@@bobbiescrisps9208 Sad situation. I had an uncle who was ostracised by my grandad because he was gay back in the 70s, who ended up committing suicide. Different times. 😢
Cigarillos are still popular especially sterling menthol and blackcurrant ones you can get in the city center near me suprised they sell those still I thought flavoured cigs ect was banned now
A time where adverts were actually funny, were memorable and had a punchline. Today's adverts, is there any that stick out and are genuinely catchy? Nope.
All I remember is initially cigarette adverts were banned, but cigar adverts were allowed for many years after that. Eventually the cigar adverts stopped too. It wasn't until much later, eventually the tobacco advertising in sports (particularly motor racing) was also banned. It took me nearly a year to find all these tobacco ads. They're the rarest.
@@RetroSteveUK I'm guessing it must have been some time in the 1990s because when I studded politics at college I learnt about an issue between Tony Blair when he was prime minister & Bernie ecclestone over either alcohol 🍸 or cigarette 🚬 advertising in sports. Also I remember reading somewhere that Sega made a F1 game & it caused controversy when it included cigarette advertising in the game to be more realistic plus Atari has a Marlboro themed Atari Lynx. That sort of stuff was considered cigarette advertising to children 😳.
@@cryptocsguy9282 Cigarettes weren't advertised in the 80's on TV, but cigars and pipes were, so no way in the 90's. I miss smoking but I'm so happy I gave it up.
Oh how times have changed because you don’t even see e cigarettes/vapes commercials on tv these days because even advertising e cigarettes/vapes on tv is probably banned but you do see stuff like those sprays you can spray in your mouth to get rid or try to get rid of your nicotine addiction 👍
Even if cigar ads were still allowed, the ASA would be having a field day over Manakins campaigns! Maybe I'm too young to understand the context, but the cigars were clearly an afterthought in those... 🍉🔞😉 As for Castella: Was it ever even possible to grow cigar tobacco in the UK? Or did they omit an important detail from their ads that Grandee thought to include in theirs? 🍁🇬🇧😇
My dad youngest brother got lung cancer died aged 42 yet he never smoked in his life and you can't blame passive smoking wouldn't allow you to smoke in his house my dad was smoking he live till 69 I know bloke who in his 70s chain smokes yet he's fit and healthy especially for age
I’ve never touched a cig in my life, knowing how dangerous they were even when I was little. I’m not sure when it became common knowledge that cigs were dangerous, but even so, watching these angers me a little knowing how some picked up smoking because of these and now suffer health issues.
@@RetroSteveUK Almost gone. Now we have e-cigs, and some shops don't even try to hide them behind a sliding door unlike cigs. History repeats itself :(
Ha the good old days when you could smoke in the pub, when they banned smoking in pubs it shut half them over night, you look at it now you did not realise it at the time but it was planned, look at todays standard's.....
I can't believe the headteacher at our school in the 80s smoked a cigar around the school and the music teacher smoked a pipe ,always in his mouth , seems so strange now especially in a place like school , still I loved the smell of cigar and pipe tobacco wafting through the school
......and teachers smoking in the staff room.
Same as my headmaster in primary school always smoked cigars but for some strange reason I liked the smell
For my last two years at secondary we had double art on Friday afternoon. Our teacher (who was a total cunt) used to go to the pub for lunch and smoke his pipe during the lesson like a beagle in a laboratory on the fire escape stairs. He smoked that much, causing such a stink, that on his many trips to the loo we would skin up some red leb and no one had a clue. His name was Swarbrick and hopefully the pipe did for lungs and his attitude did for his relationships and he died alone on a ward, with pampers on sucking ready break thru a straw. Wanker.
I like the one with dad being in a wonderful mood when he's having his castella. So funny
The baldy man in the photo booth was the best ever tobacco ad. It got everyone talking, even the non smokers.
HAMLET are a very nice cigar.
Rab C Nesbitt
Indeed Rab/Gregor " i will tell you this boy"
I always loved the one's where Russ Abbott would put the record player into the water, playing des o'connor records and the fish would jump out into the net. Genius adverts. 😂
I loved all the adverts back then as they had so much humour. I avoid todays adverts like the plague
@@LadyLuck13 ditto. 😂
The guy in the photobooth total classic
Not had a smoke in years, but after seeing all this I think I want to go outside and spark up!
A few other people have said that after watching this compilation. Just shows the power of advertising (well, decades-old advertising at least). 🚭
Great video lots of famous people on the Adverts . Lady's drinking smoking poeple injoying them self good old days.👌
That Castella advert featured 3 of my favourite actors; Kate Williams, Derek Martin, and the awesome Jay Simpson 🙂❤👍
Never been interested in smoking before, but I really feel the urge to start it up now. Thanks!
oh my
Superman never says yes to a cigarette.
@@RetroSteveUK Superman is invincible though... What a poorly thought-out, dumb saying.
I fancy a cigar now
If I recall I think also actor Gregor Fisher aka also known as sitcom character Rab C Nesbitt also appeared in a Hamlet ad and if I recall correctly there was a sitcom spin off called the Baldy Man who Gregor Fisher also played
Yeah, I think (possibly) the ad featuring Gregor Fisher on this compilation was a spin-off from the Baldyman character that was in a comedy sketch show. I'll have to look this up.
I gave up smoking over 20 years ago, but thanks to you reposting these old adverts l've started smoking again :)
I sincerely hope not! I'm actually a passionate anti-smoker. 😬🤣
To be fair ' these ads are harmless enough ' i remember the cartoon type ad ' one puff & you will be in my grasp 🤣
Love these. Remind me of my old Latin teacher who used to smoke a pipe in class and my dad who smoked Hamlets at Christmas and then went onto a pipe when he was trying to give up cigarettes in the 80s! 😆
Wished I'd never started smoking but I tend to need them now more than ever the trouble is everyone looks down their noses at you I wished we could go back in time where pubs had smoke rooms
Wish we could go back in time for reasons of today. I would think that the kids and young adults nowadays, will not have the quality of life as we did. At 64 and with what's happening now, I am glad I smoked, drank and freely enjoyed a good life. One thing is for sure, those days will never come around again.
Never too late to quit.
@@mmwaashumslowww7167 Yes i remember going to the pub with mum, dad, uncles and aunts, all smoked all drank and all enjoyed themselves, very happy days for me as well, also they would go to the horse racing, i remember how dad and uncle would be so exited when they won on a bet, dad would smoke cigars , uncle smoked a pipe, i loved the smell of it, and your right those days will never come again, and those sort of people will never exist again, but i have my memories.
Love how they depict their ideal user as the average schlubby dad instead of a hyper masculine cowboy. It's the tinge of honesty that makes these
Silk Cut cinema ad. Totally un pc but very funny. Also i remember a cigar that came with its own plastic holder bolted on but cannot remember the name.
As I'm seeing only one cigarette ad here (I presume a cinema ad), what was the evolution of UK broadcast tobacco advertising? In the US, cigarette commercials were banned (but not in print) in early 1971, while cigars, pipe tobacco and chew commercials could still be shown on a limited basis, mostly just during sports broadcasts, until 1986. Seeing this and other '70s UK ad compilations, it looks like the regulations were somewhat similar at that time.
I did look up the dates a while back, so from memory admittedly, cigarette ads were banned from TV during the 1960s and cigar/tobacco during the 80s.
From across the pond here .. HAGRID doing beer adverts.. and Stephen fry pusing smoking.. wow ..just wow
Those were the days! 😱
Edward Woodward The Equalizer in the last ad, Benson and Hedges.
When I was at Sunday school in the late sixties Mr.Bluck the vicar used to chain smoke silk cut throughout.🤭
Blimey! Those were the days, I guess. 😳
I have never seen a pipe smoker for decades
Sherlock Holmes
Great way to enjoy quality tobacco.
You tube has a call community called the TH-cam pipe community. You’d be surprised. Pipe smokers all over the World!
My God what the "beep" has happened to this country when you watch these brilliant memories.
Move somewhere else then. crying ass old man.
With Dad being a smoker, I used to always find them Hamlet cigar tins everywhere 🤣
I only do menthols, raspy voice crew here 🤣🤣🤣
Wow mad! I just said to the hubby yesterday, I hope retro steve does the hamlet adverts!.....love it!
Another great compilation Retro Steve.
I was waiting for the comb over guy in the hamlett ad 🤣 The player in the last benson and hedges ad who won the poker game was he the guy who played the equalizer ?
Yes. Edward Woodward .. unmistakably.
Derek Martin aka Charlie Slater in the very first ad
Always classic advert for Hamlet cigers!!!
The Hamlet adds I still miss to this day
very amusing and smartly thought out
Some classics on there it brought back loads of memories! Bye for now
👋
Didn't have the most classic of all: the famous "you're never alone with a Strand"., the advert which killed the brand stone dead.
Awesome upload Steve!!!
Can't believe how cheap smokes were !!!😂
That's Gregory Fisher
There something you don't see advertise anymore!!!! Smoking!!
I wonder if that was Grace Jones singing "Sheer Enjoyment" in the Manikin beach ad with the girl splashing around
@10:20 - Hamlet (Queen in a puddle) is actress Geraldine Alexander.
Tobacco adverts were strange as cigarette advertising was banned in 1965 but cigar adverts weren’t, I wonder why that was?
Cigars have little appeal to underage smokers, pipe tobacco even less appeal. So they were permitted to advertise on TV until 1991 I think it was.
I don't think I ever saw these thin cigars in the US in real life before. I heard about them in old movies, but I never saw them for sale in stores.
Cigars always seemed like a special occasion thing. Always used to buy a box for my step-dad at Christmas.
Brings back memories, but for the best we no longer advertise smoking
My grandad would sit next to me smoking, I go outside for the cat 😅
I started with hamlet cigars and Panama I now smoke Havana's ahh memories
My favourite of the castella ones was the fishing one, which is why Des O'Connor features in the one on this compilation.
I do remember that. This one was kind of a 'revenge' advert. I haven't come across the first advert yet though.
@@RetroSteveUK there you go th-cam.com/video/Q4hhOU2BBeo/w-d-xo.html
It's the first if you search on TH-cam for Russ Abbott fishing but it's mislabelled as a hamlet ad.
Loved that lot back in the day when people enjoyed a nice burn up 👍 Not pc anymore
Yeah, everyone smelled like an ashtray back then, even the non-smokers. 😂
David Jason
These are sooooooooooooooo good. Going forward any chance of putting the year(s) they broadcasted? Love your work.
I wanted to include the years from the outset, but it's just too much research I don't have the time for on top of everything else.
1960's
My favourite smoke was players number 6.
Mine to lovely
I think I want to try Manikin - then i can get some ladies
That's how it worked back then ... apparently.
6:19 that's *frank Windsor* from *softly softly* (not the Scottish actor Gordon Jackson)
Happy 2024 :)
The days when adverts tried to sell you their product without preaching about the climate
I can't imagine how a tobacco advert in 2023 (if they were still a thing) could promote the environment. "Our nicotine clouds poison your friends and family less than those other brands!" ?? Maybe? 🤣
They should do Lung Cancer.
Funnily enough, I have some lung cancer adverts saved up for the next tobacco compilation.
Tobacco advertising went on longer in the UK than it did here in the US. By the way, who is that lovely actress in the Grandee ad?
Yeah, I have no idea, but if she was able to turn Frankie Howerd's head, she must have been something special!
@@bobbiescrisps9208 Sad situation. I had an uncle who was ostracised by my grandad because he was gay back in the 70s, who ended up committing suicide. Different times. 😢
Was it Madeline Smith in the 1st Frankie Howard ad?
@@carolined668 Yes! That's the one! 👏
@@carolined668 thank you!
‘Flake or ready-rubbed’ I always thought the latter sounded slightly pervy.
Six appeal. I remember that one. Lol.
Not Gordon Jackson (from Upstairs Downstairs)-Frank Windsor (from Z-Cars)-there is a resemblance though, at least until they start speaking. 😁
I still love a good cigar..cheap as chips in Spain. 😆
9:45, looks like the Dad from the film Rita, Sue and Bob too.
Classic film, that! 🤣👍
Cigarillos are still popular especially sterling menthol and blackcurrant ones you can get in the city center near me suprised they sell those still I thought flavoured cigs ect was banned now
Keep flys away on golf course and cure my hay-fever.
At least smoking on a golf course you're out in the open and as far away from other people as possible.
Everybody smoked in the 50 and 60s
Typical brains of the government, ban cigarette ads but still allow cigar ads.
Depends who in the government is friends with who in the industry, and who's investing in what, and who's donating to who.
O my gosh bk in the day
A time where adverts were actually funny, were memorable and had a punchline. Today's adverts, is there any that stick out and are genuinely catchy? Nope.
Not many, anyway. The Haribo ads where the adults have kids' voices - I love those.
Classic delboy moment imagine Rodney behind the mask
2 missing - Today's cigarette is a Bristol, and cool Consulate.
Ah well, never mind. Maybe next time, huh? 🙂
Were cigars the thing to smoke over there in the 70's? All our ads were fir cigarettes in the states.
Cigarette ads were banned in the UK back in 1965, so we only really got TV ads for cigars & tobacco from the 70s on.
@@RetroSteveUK oh ok cool
My dad smoked his pipe in our car, it was like driving through a London smog.... in the car.
My step-dad smoked rollups one after the other in our car. Eight-hour journeys to our holiday destination were a nightmare.
Those Manikin ads! 😆
Yep .. definitely a thing of their time. Best left behind.
@@RetroSteveUK Lol her knockers showing and manipulating a leaf into a vagina shape!
@@Juliukas101
Sheer Enjoyment??
When did they banned cigarette 🚬 🚭 adverts from TV ? 📺 I'm 24 & never seen one on my life
All I remember is initially cigarette adverts were banned, but cigar adverts were allowed for many years after that. Eventually the cigar adverts stopped too. It wasn't until much later, eventually the tobacco advertising in sports (particularly motor racing) was also banned. It took me nearly a year to find all these tobacco ads. They're the rarest.
@@RetroSteveUK I'm guessing it must have been some time in the 1990s because when I studded politics at college I learnt about an issue between Tony Blair when he was prime minister & Bernie ecclestone over either alcohol 🍸 or cigarette 🚬 advertising in sports. Also I remember reading somewhere that Sega made a F1 game & it caused controversy when it included cigarette advertising in the game to be more realistic plus Atari has a Marlboro themed Atari Lynx. That sort of stuff was considered cigarette advertising to children 😳.
@Marc Carran Then on motor racing cars for quite a while too.
@@cryptocsguy9282 Cigarettes weren't advertised in the 80's on TV, but cigars and pipes were, so no way in the 90's. I miss smoking but I'm so happy I gave it up.
@@chrisd5964 why do you miss it lol?
Oh how times have changed because you don’t even see e cigarettes/vapes commercials on tv these days because even advertising e cigarettes/vapes on tv is probably banned but you do see stuff like those sprays you can spray in your mouth to get rid or try to get rid of your nicotine addiction 👍
I haven't seen the mouth spray adverts. I didn't even know that was a thing.
I can't put my finger on exactly why but I want a manakin cigar. It ain't the addictiveness of the tobacco either 😂
You'd best not put your finger on it. You get arrested for that sort of thing nowadays. 😂
@@RetroSteveUK 😂😂😂😂😂 Wise words Steve.
Even if cigar ads were still allowed, the ASA would be having a field day over Manakins campaigns! Maybe I'm too young to understand the context, but the cigars were clearly an afterthought in those... 🍉🔞😉
As for Castella: Was it ever even possible to grow cigar tobacco in the UK? Or did they omit an important detail from their ads that Grandee thought to include in theirs? 🍁🇬🇧😇
Did they ban cigarette ads before cigar/oose tobacco ones? or did you just group all the similar ads together?
Cigarette ads were banned long before loose tobacco & cigar ads.
@@RetroSteveUK Hm how interesting. Progress is always slow I guess
Nice work, Steve!!
When I was a kid always thought this ad was about me ---------------Michael Shearing Joy ment
7:30 it's the gasman ..
what's in it: crack cocaine?
No condor moments? And the O'Connor getting his revenge without the original fishing advert? For shame.
Yeah, but I can only use what I come across, so there's that.
@@RetroSteveUK I pointed the fishing one out further down the thread. It is on TH-cam
@@AndrewHalliwell Yeah, I saw that comment after I replied.
7:08
ALLO I wonder if I could just check ya meter
Can you too see Whitney Houston in that come-and-get-me 6:14?
9:45 can anyone please tell me what this music is called ?
I been trying to find out for years
I don't know myself, but I'll try clipping out the audio and doing a search later tonight. 👍
@@RetroSteveUK Thank you Sir
very kind of you ... only been waiting for the answer since 1968 :)
@@Daracdor I just tried two different online music recognition websites. No result on either, so it shall remain a mystery I'm afraid.
@@RetroSteveUK Thanks for trying Steve
one maybe
This is a popular piano piece first published in 1891 called Narcissus, by Ethelbert Nevin
My dad youngest brother got lung cancer died aged 42 yet he never smoked in his life and you can't blame passive smoking wouldn't allow you to smoke in his house my dad was smoking he live till 69 I know bloke who in his 70s chain smokes yet he's fit and healthy especially for age
Luck of the draw sometimes. My step dad died of smoking-related lung issues.
I’ve never touched a cig in my life, knowing how dangerous they were even when I was little. I’m not sure when it became common knowledge that cigs were dangerous, but even so, watching these angers me a little knowing how some picked up smoking because of these and now suffer health issues.
I agree. Both my parents smoked when I was a boy and I hated it with a passion. These fag ads are just a curiosity now. I'm glad those days are gone.
@@RetroSteveUK Almost gone. Now we have e-cigs, and some shops don't even try to hide them behind a sliding door unlike cigs. History repeats itself :(
Carlos fandango wheels.
Ha! I'd never seen that one! Just looked it up ... th-cam.com/video/nqqZ28m8uCo/w-d-xo.html
Whohad a party phone line?
Who collect cigarette cards?
"His taste in women is a little bit rum, too". HA!
Talking to the great Freddie Truman.
Somewhere along the line we lost our sense of humour!😢
Ah yes,the days when tv was allowed to get you hooked on nocotine and fill you with cancer causing chemicals.😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Makes you hanker for the simpler times before all the bullshittery.
Ha the good old days when you could smoke in the pub, when they banned smoking in pubs it shut half them over night, you look at it now you did not realise it at the time but it was planned, look at todays standard's.....
Funnily enough, I've been to the pub more in recent years since the smoking ban. Isn't life strange?
When lung cancer was much cheaper LOL
Yep! 😆
My dad loved is tabacco until it killed him 22 years ago ps don't worry he'd bloody laugh at my comnent as well....
The hilarious fun of cancer.
all banned now for a good reason
Definitely. 👍
50% chance of cancer, bad odds.
2:17 😂😂😂 ewww
Dreadful, disgusting, evil habit. The family move to Vietnam in April. 20 cigarettes - €1.00