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"In our opinion, [after taxation] the other two regulatory environment changes that concern the industry the most are homogenous packaging and below-the-counter sales. Both would significantly restrict the industry's ability to promote their products." Morgan Stanley Research (2007)
Frank Ifield promotes Craven A Cigarettes
Tobacco and the Human Body. B&W film produced by Encyclopaedia Britannica Films in 1954 on the health effects of tobacco. This film is in two parts.
Up in Smoke - A dramatisation of greedy tobacco company executives who put profit over health concerns. Colour film produced by Brigham Young University in 1960.
The Sixth Sense - A 1949 B&W film sponsored by the American Tobacco Company (Lucky Strike) and produced by the Handy (Jam) Organization. Reviews the cigarette company's research laboratory.
Lucky Strike Cigarette Commercial: Square Dance - Produced in 1948 by the Handy (Jam) Organization for the American Tobacco Company.
Lucky Strike Means Fine Tobacco Musical Short. An early example of musical sponsorship. This 1950 program was sponsored by Lucky Strike and features Frank Sinatra and Kay Kaiser.
Newport Cigarette Commercial with a Hawaiian flair. Newport was manufactured by Lorillard.
Montclair Cigarettes TV Commercial produced in the 1960s. This is indicative of the marketing shift in the 1960s towards promoting low tar and nicotine but "high in flavor" cigarettes.
Smoking kills hamsters
Smoking shortens your penis
Don't pass gas!!! Scatological humour from the American Legacy Foundation
Nicorette Cannes Lion award-winning commercial
Walt Disney's Goofy gives us the history of smoking

