Oh, Really?

Here's a 1930 magazine ad for Lucky Strike Cigarettes.

You'd Rather Fight Than Switch?

Here's a Tareyton cigarettes TV commercial from 1967---in Living Color!  Makes you feel old, doesn't it?

Hey, It's Toasted!

1929 magazine ad for Lucky Strike cigarettes with famed composer George Gershwin.

 

Light Up A Lucky!

Yes, folks, this 1955 commercial for Lucky Strike Cigarettes was actually filmed at a diner.

Hey, They Are Outstanding! And They Are Mild!

Hell, you can light either end!

Here's a late 1950s commercial for Pall Mall Cigarettes with Lee Marvin, who starred in the TV series M Squad at the time.

The series was sponsored by American Tobacco Company, which made Pall Mall (as well as Lucky Strike), and Lee was there to promote the product.

And Now, Boys And Girls.....

Let's go back to 1955 for the original opening of an episode of Make Room For Daddy as was sponsored by the American Tobacco Company and televised on ABC. This clip includes a commercial for Pall Mall cigarettes. The series was also sponsored (on an alternating basis) by the Dodge division of Chrysler.




Danny Thomas' sitcom moved to CBS in 1957 and I think it wound up being sponsored by General Foods.