Vintage tobacco adverts from British TV, hand-picked for this compilation with cleaned-up audio & video. Check out the channel page for more advert compilations.
Chapter Markers:
00:00 Condor Moment (Bikini Thief)
00:22 Falstaff Cigars
00:54 Benson & Hedges (Priceless)
02:51 St.Bruno (Pipe Smoker’s Dream)
03:22 Mellow Virginia (Pipe Maker)
03:53 Clan Pipe Tobacco
04:24 Erinmore Pipe Tobacco
04:55 Smoking Gets Up People’s Noses
05:26 Hamlet Cigars (Loose Wig)
05:58 Panama 6 (Ade Edmondson)
06:32 Hamlet Cigars (Frankenstein’s Monster)
07:03 Castella Classic (Ronnie Barker)
07:34 Hamlet (Safari Park Monkeys)
08:15 NiQuitin CQ Patches
08:46 Hamlet (Footballer’s Balls)
09:17 Nicorette Gum
09:49 Hamlet (Bog Roll Puppy)
10:20 Nicobrevin Capsules
10:52 NHS Stop Smoking (Ling Cancer)
11:34 End Links & Soundbite
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Sorry but it sounded like he said it’s a condom moment…😂😂😂😂
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!
Complains about passive smoking yet takes the upper deck on the bus, the only deck where smoking is permitted!
I can almost smell the lovely pipe tobacco aroma
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.
Very funny and aimed at adults. Best laff I've had today, Cheers.
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.🤔
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.
My dad smoked a pipe ,I can still remember the smell at Christmas, gorgeous.
RIP Dad.
Smoking should completely abolished to prevent COPD & Cancer deaths.
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 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 😁
just pausing while i go for a fag😂
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.
Old Classic Adverts.
The Hamlet adverts were some the best
Honourable mention for Ade Edmondson.
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).
8:16 if a product requires willpower what is the product doing exactly? Advertising at its worst.
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
Always loved that Hamlet piano chord movement, still immediately triggers childhood in my brain
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
watching this instead of having a morning fag
Im still smoking a pipe ☁☁☁☁
Been smoking a pipe since I was 17 and smoking plug tobacco. Now at 74 still puffing away with my favourite plug, Black Cherry with some Condor flake or Erin Moore mixed in.
All this vid needs is a cat's tail swinging over the screen.