The pipe ads remind me of both my Dad and my Husband. Three Nuns for Dad and various Fox Tobaccos. R.I. P. Dad and Giles. I love the Hamlet cigars ads best
As an ex smoker of many years, it seems weird seeing these ads these days. Must admit i used to love a cigar at Chrimbo. The smell of a pipe i used to love too!
I was really hoping that advert with the baboons was going to finish with a yell of, "SHAKMA!, 😆but I knew it was going to be a Hamlet ad and that the strains of Air on the G String were incoming - those adverts had a definite feel to them. Nice to see Ronnie Barker displaying a little bit of the character of Fletch from the other side of the bars 😁
The only brand I've heard of is Benson & Hedges(I think they can still be found out here in the States), Nicorette gum is pretty much everywhere and is still around too. Great video Steve
It's weird to think nowadays of just how widespread and entirely normal tobacco advertising and sponsorship was, even in sports (the incompatibility of which did actually strike me as very strange, even as a child), when it's such anathema today (and rightly so). But there were some undeniably creative and memorable adverts, including the likes of Gregor Fisher's Baldy Man promoting Hamlet. Though the best time may have been the period in F1 when most teams still had major tobacco sponsors, but some countries were beginning to ban tobacco ads and they had to get very creative with their liveries, with the likes of Jordan cars advertising "Buzzin' & Hornets" instead of "Benson & Hedges"
Has anyone else noticed how they were once able to advertise to men? I don't recall a single advert that's compelled me to buy anything, in the past ten years.🤔
Men in the modern generations are different beasts, I guess. That's probably who modern ads are aimed at. Makes sense if you consider we're all starting to die off now.
Those tiny thin cigars never really took off in the US for some reason. It's weird seeing the actor who played Mr. Filch as a young man. The Squaw" tobacco ad would have never been shown in the US, even back then, I think. Ack! The patch ad is interesting. The UK used a play on words about quitting while the US was, as usual, more pedantic calling it Nicoderm CQ.
How attitudes to smoking have changed over the last 30 years, incredible really. I used to enjoy the occasional cigar myself . . . usually Henri Wintermans or Royal Dutch. Never liked Hamlet despite all the advertising, nasty tasting things. Castella was better but still not very good, 'pub cigars' really like Hamlet.
@RPKGameVids sure. But issue comes when the same adult who makes that specific choice expects society and public services to support the consequences of that decision.
Always loved that Hamlet piano chord movement, still immediately triggers childhood in my brain
My dad smoked a pipe ,I can still remember the smell at Christmas, gorgeous.
RIP Dad.
The Hamlet adverts were some the best
The pipe ads remind me of both my Dad and my Husband. Three Nuns for Dad and various Fox Tobaccos. R.I. P. Dad and Giles. I love the Hamlet cigars ads best
As an ex smoker of many years, it seems weird seeing these ads these days. Must admit i used to love a cigar at Chrimbo. The smell of a pipe i used to love too!
It's funny .. I've never smoked and hate the habit, but still find the adverts nostalgic.
I gave up smoking in 2008. But on the rare occasion I still feel tempted to just sit back and relax with a cigar, especially when it's Chrimbo time.
Old Classic Adverts.
I can almost smell the lovely pipe tobacco aroma
Very funny and aimed at adults. Best laff I've had today, Cheers.
I miss these adverts. The real imaginative ones you'd get in the Christmas radio and TV times. The F1 car liveries.
All good things as they say.
I was really hoping that advert with the baboons was going to finish with a yell of, "SHAKMA!, 😆but I knew it was going to be a Hamlet ad and that the strains of Air on the G String were incoming - those adverts had a definite feel to them. Nice to see Ronnie Barker displaying a little bit of the character of Fletch from the other side of the bars 😁
I don't smoke but I miss these adverts.
My late dad used to own a Vauxhall Cresta PA like the one in the Hamlet advert (Safari Park one).
The only brand I've heard of is Benson & Hedges(I think they can still be found out here in the States), Nicorette gum is pretty much everywhere and is still around too. Great video Steve
Sorry but it sounded like he said it’s a condom moment…😂😂😂😂
I wouldn't recommend smoking one of those! 😵💫
Just a moment? 😂
It's weird to think nowadays of just how widespread and entirely normal tobacco advertising and sponsorship was, even in sports (the incompatibility of which did actually strike me as very strange, even as a child), when it's such anathema today (and rightly so). But there were some undeniably creative and memorable adverts, including the likes of Gregor Fisher's Baldy Man promoting Hamlet. Though the best time may have been the period in F1 when most teams still had major tobacco sponsors, but some countries were beginning to ban tobacco ads and they had to get very creative with their liveries, with the likes of Jordan cars advertising "Buzzin' & Hornets" instead of "Benson & Hedges"
I remember a Baron Knights parody song .. "Dammit .. found under benches and hedges."
Has anyone else noticed how they were once able to advertise to men? I don't recall a single advert that's compelled me to buy anything, in the past ten years.🤔
Men in the modern generations are different beasts, I guess. That's probably who modern ads are aimed at. Makes sense if you consider we're all starting to die off now.
You still see coercive ads in the US, but most people no longer realize they are now in the same way.
@@RetroSteveUK Yeah, I can't tell who's a fruit, these days, or whatever the correct term now is. I know it's not "bender" but that's about it. 👍
@@FatNorthernBigot
Speaking for myself, "progressive metro-sexual", although I'm not sure I have enough style to be considered a true metro.
Honourable mention for Ade Edmondson.
Those tiny thin cigars never really took off in the US for some reason. It's weird seeing the actor who played Mr. Filch as a young man. The Squaw" tobacco ad would have never been shown in the US, even back then, I think. Ack! The patch ad is interesting. The UK used a play on words about quitting while the US was, as usual, more pedantic calling it Nicoderm CQ.
How attitudes to smoking have changed over the last 30 years, incredible really. I used to enjoy the occasional cigar myself . . . usually Henri Wintermans or Royal Dutch. Never liked Hamlet despite all the advertising, nasty tasting things. Castella was better but still not very good, 'pub cigars' really like Hamlet.
Always used to get my step-dad cigars for Christmas. Only time he ever smoked them. He was a 40-a-day roll-up man ... RIP dad 🪦
Smoking should completely abolished to prevent COPD & Cancer deaths.
Ultimately, the public wouldn't accept it. People would rather face the possibility of horrible death than risk not fitting in with their peers.
If an adult wants to smoke then they should be able to, you have no right telling them what to do.
@RPKGameVids sure. But issue comes when the same adult who makes that specific choice expects society and public services to support the consequences of that decision.
Complains about passive smoking yet takes the upper deck on the bus, the only deck where smoking is permitted!
"Upstairs please" .. said the conductor.
8:16 if a product requires willpower what is the product doing exactly? Advertising at its worst.