1958 "Not Adversely Affected By Smoking Chesterfields"

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ZombiedustXXX (1 year ago) Show Hide

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This commercial, no matter how heinous and grossly distorted, shows one fact: FIFTY years ago, the cigarette industry was reacting to the fact that people everywhere ALREADY had a pretty good idea that cigarettes caused health problems. Why anyone starts smoking cigarettes in the first place is a mystery to me.

Indeed, some 40 years after it was so noted in the U.S. Congress in 1914

fromthesidelines (1 year ago) Show Hide

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That "Chesterfield" commercial must have been originally shown on "DRAGNET" [since George Fenneman was not only that cigarette's #1 announcer/pitchman in the '50s, he was also Jack Webb's "good luck charm" in opening each episode of the series as well].

Note the "attractions" in that toy drive-in theater...all CBS-TV "properties" {"HAVE GUN- WILL TRAVEL", "CAPT. KANGAROO", "TERRYTOONS" characters} at the time! This dates that commercial around 1958-'59.

Note the moderator's cause of death- emphysema from smoking cigarettes.