Vintage UK Tobacco Adverts (Vol.2)

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  • Vintage cigar/pipe/tobacco adverts from British TV, hand-picked for this compilation with cleaned-up audio & video. Check out the playlists on my channel page for more vintage ad compilations: / retrosteveuk
    Chapter Markers:
    00:00 John Player Mild Cigars
    00:32 Hamlet Cigars (Runaway Sidecar)
    01:04 Pint & Castella (Pub Names)
    01:35 Mellow Virginia (Sir Walter Raleigh)
    02:22 St. Bruno (Peace Pipe Dream)
    02:54 Superman & Nick O'Teen (Grow Up Fast Kids)
    03:25 Mellow Virginia (A Pipe Is A Hobby)
    03:57 Hamlet Cigars (Queen In A Puddle)
    04:29 Castella Classic (Russ Abbot Fishing)
    05:10 Benson & Hedges (Unwitting Smuggler)
    06:12 St. Bruno (Ice Dogs)
    06:45 Smoking (Who Needs It?)
    07:16 Cigar Smoker (The RAC)
    07:48 Henri Wintermans Half Corona
    08:19 Hamlet Cigars (Christmas Turkeys)
    08:51 Castella Classic (Russ Abbot's Cat Flap)
    09:32 Superman & Nick O'Teen (Easy To Give Up)
    10:05 Hamlet Cigars (Santa's Sleigh)
    10:37 Superman & Nick O'Teen (Wizard Disguise)
    11:07 Hamlet Cigars (Channel 4 Logo Fail)
    11:39 Stop Smoking Quitline
    12:20 End Links & Bonus Audio
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  • @dappergent9422
    @dappergent9422 6 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Absolutely brilliant collection of adverts. I dare say I remember them all! Superman. 'Never say yes to a cigarette' Russ Abbot and the Des O'Connor fish jumping out of the water - sublime 🤣

  • @mgthestrange9098
    @mgthestrange9098 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

    3:09 these adverts were almost tempting me to take up the stinky habit of smoking, but I was saved by Superman. Thank you Man of Steel! 🦸‍♂️

  • @garrylawless3550
    @garrylawless3550 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +4

    Cigar adverts they were always entertaining and I always used to think that classy people smoked them! Nico-teen and Superman, I loved those, well my bedroom was covered in Superman wallpaper! Great collection again. Thank you for uploading them.

  • @Kampala_Harris
    @Kampala_Harris 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +9

    Just 44p for 5 cigars,those were the good old days.❤

    • @carllondonnuman7604
      @carllondonnuman7604 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      The good old days where people were stupid enough to smoke this shit.😂

    • @lonewolfgeoff
      @lonewolfgeoff 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +3

      and much better quality... for a quicker end! 😂😂😂

    • @whitesapphire5865
      @whitesapphire5865 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      They were actually "slim panatellas". To call them a cigar, would be like taking a twig and calling it a log!
      A friend of mine's husband smokes them, but they don't smell half as nice as they used to in the 'good old days'!
      I still don't see what people (shall we say fellas?) get out of smoking them.
      I believe, historically, panatellas were introduced in the Victorian era as a sort of 'ladies' cigar. Correct me if I'm wrong?

    • @jwb52z9
      @jwb52z9 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      @@whitesapphire5865 In the US, they're called "cigarillos" when they're so thin and short.

    • @whitesapphire5865
      @whitesapphire5865 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@jwb52z9 I've heard of cigarillos, but never knew just what they were. Similarly, I've heard of a cheroot but still none the wiser.
      To me, they're all tobacco products, and outside of my own personal experience.

  • @davidjones6470
    @davidjones6470 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Classic Thumbnail, with the great Russ Abbott,

    • @mgthestrange9098
      @mgthestrange9098 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      It’s funny, I always thought he would smell of tobacco.

  • @julieb5707
    @julieb5707 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    The iconic hamlet theme tune

  • @iron6mai6den63
    @iron6mai6den63 8 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Got to love the RAC Piss take 😂

  • @meinjapan
    @meinjapan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    always love a good Des O`conner singing joke🤣

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Morecambe and Wise would be proud.

  • @mattw8332
    @mattw8332 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    After watching these adverts I could do with a rough shag right now. 🤣
    I never took up smoking, although a few friends and I did go through a phase of smoking the odd cigar in a pub when it was still legal to do so.
    Those Hamlet adverts were brilliant.

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      🤣🤣

    • @mgthestrange9098
      @mgthestrange9098 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      🤣be gentle with me, I’m a mild Virginia! 😂

  • @CreamedCheesed
    @CreamedCheesed 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Good balance of cigar adverts and public information films.

  • @thefrecklepuny
    @thefrecklepuny 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    The Fox and Hound, The Cat and Fiddle, The George and Vulture and indeed the Lung and Cough!

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    However did this get past the youtube thought police 👮‍♂️🚨? Actually they were some of the most imaginative adverts, and still some of the best remembered

  • @Tacsmoker
    @Tacsmoker 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    the benson and hedges small cigar one was great... with mr peacock as well ;-)
    the channel 4 logo hamlet one was inspired genius

  • @adammelvin4753
    @adammelvin4753 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    I remember a few these adverts, especially the Hamlet ones. I used to collect the Gratis points from B&H, had loads of them. Wasn't old enough to order from the Gratis catalogue though so I had to get my nan to order stuff 😂😂

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      I forgot about the Gratis points! Thanks for bringing that memory back.

  • @jwb52z9
    @jwb52z9 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

    I don't know about anywhere else, but they're not called cigars in the US when they're so thin and short. In that case, they're called "cigarillos".

  • @thomashunter5707
    @thomashunter5707 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Its all about pipe tobacco and cigars😂😂

  • @Eric-dd8bk
    @Eric-dd8bk 17 วันที่ผ่านมา

    Roughly only 50 cents for 5 cigars?
    I should've been born just 50 years earlier.

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  17 วันที่ผ่านมา

      Really expensive at the time, I guess. On my first job just back in 1989 I was paid £1.80p per hour! Imagine that now. 🤣

  • @mgthestrange9098
    @mgthestrange9098 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    11:22 was anyone else slightly freaked out by this as a kid?

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Possibly, but I think I was a lot older when this came out. It is a bit creepy in a way.

  • @stevedickson5853
    @stevedickson5853 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Where was Superman when we were puffing away our cigs on the back of the school bus and behind the school wall .. eh, lol

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      He was too busy making movies.

  • @davidbowie2046
    @davidbowie2046 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Used to love a cigar years ago in my smoking days. Senator were my favourite. Mad to see that there never used to be a health warning on them and they were advertised on TV. Cigarette ads were allowed to be shown in the cinema up till 1990 I think? You watch, the next ban will be alcohols adverts

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      I've never really understood why cigarette ads were banned but cigars were ok.

    • @davidbowie2046
      @davidbowie2046 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RetroSteveUK They must of been classed as OK as most people didn't inhale the smoke?

    • @mgthestrange9098
      @mgthestrange9098 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Well, they’ve already cracked down on sweet adverts,… yup, that’s the obesity issue solved !

    • @rachel.mcgowan
      @rachel.mcgowan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      ​@@RetroSteveUKI think it was because few children would find smoking cigars and especially pipes an attractive prospect, while cigarettes were considered much more likely to appeal to those under the legal smoking age.

  • @El-Ritmo
    @El-Ritmo 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Seeing Walter Raleigh portrayed here very much has The Beatles playing through my head right now (no bad thing, mind), specifically John Lennon's voice singing, "although I'm so tired I'll have another cigarette, and curse Sir Walter Raleigh, he was such a stupid git" 😁

  • @Matty112uk
    @Matty112uk 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Cracking set. I was wondering if you were going to put the 'Pint & Castella' ad in there! Some classics there. I always thought Cigar smoking was far, far worse from cigarettes. At least from a smoke and smell perspective anyway!
    I wonder how my late grandad (my mother's dad) would find the modern world? He had probably been smoking from the age of 14 onwards, puffing on 40 a day. Only giving up far too late when his legs started seizing up through to lack of circulation. This led eventually to Gangrene in one of his toes. He had part of his leg off, but the damage was too extensive and he died in Hospital in 1987 aged 70 years.
    My old man was a light smoker, only having a 'ciggy' at the pub occasionally, and he used to have a Cigar at Christmas. My mom has never smoked.
    All television commercials for cigarettes were banned on 1 August 1965, while TV adverts for loose tobacco and Cigars continued until 1991.

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I never really understood why the differentiation was made between cigs and cigars in the advertising ban.

  • @jackieyoungman7970
    @jackieyoungman7970 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Interesting collection. If f I'd have seen the Superman advert when i was a child rather than an adult, or if I'd understood (when I was 14) what John Lennon meant when he said "Curse Sir Walter Raleigh he was such a stupid git....." there's a possibility I may not have started smoking, which I've been powerfully addicted to all my life with all attempts at quitting having failed miserably. I blame the Consulate Cool As A Mountain Stream advert from the 1960s for making the idea of becoming a smoker so very attractive. However, at the time, most people did smoke so it didn't seem to be a big deal......just something that pretty much everyone did without thinking about it.

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      I think those Superman ads definitely had an effect on me. They used to be shown around Christmas time in the ads during the Superman films on TV. Ultimately though, the thing that stopped me taking up smoking was growing up with two parents that smoked, and having no choice but to live with that. A house full of smoke every day growing up has given me a hatred of smoking.

    • @jackieyoungman7970
      @jackieyoungman7970 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      @@RetroSteveUK I suppose I just thought it was normal as my whole family, extended too, smoked like troopers. I just wish I'd never have started, although I'm now nudging 70 and so far have suffered no ill-effects from it. It's a horrible habit/addiction though and I admire anyone who never started, and maybe even more, who has managed to successfully give up.

  • @AndreiTupolev
    @AndreiTupolev 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Actually if you look at the Hamlet ad at0:42, the motorbike was so close to the edge of the road that if the sidecar HADN'T come loose it would have gone straight into the earth bank and overturned at the very least, and probably into the signpost. It avoided a probably much worse accident there. Or am i analysing this too much? 🤔

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      One can never have too much overthinking. Well, yes one can, but still .. nice observation! 🤣

  • @rachel.mcgowan
    @rachel.mcgowan 9 หลายเดือนก่อน

    Long, firm, satisfying.. LOL OK

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน

      Indeed. 🤣

  • @wolvesaywe1155
    @wolvesaywe1155 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

    Tobacco you will get the snowflakes triggered lol

    • @davidbowie2046
      @davidbowie2046 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      It's like they're trying to erase history, so young people think we never smoked years ago 🤣

    • @carllondonnuman7604
      @carllondonnuman7604 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +2

      Because young people now have got the Education on health that you never had. You must be very angry deep down about what your government did to you and your body and mind.😕😰

    • @wolvesaywe1155
      @wolvesaywe1155 9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      lol thats exactly what my dad would say to me back in the 80s he and mom never knew about the health risks in the 50s and 60s when they started smoking but we still did it because we were teenagers and unlike today we rebelled no snowflakes or woke back then and we never trusted the government which has served me well and I bet you have had all the jabs and boosters and deep down you know what your government did to you and your body and mind LOL

    • @RetroSteveUK
      @RetroSteveUK  9 หลายเดือนก่อน +1

      Historical documents. No more, no less. 👍 I tend to think of 'triggered' as more of a mental illness symptom than a derogatory term.