One Big Happy by Rick Detorie for December 29, 2011

One more reason smoking is bad for your health!

Is that brand still around? I haven’t had anything to do with tobacco since ‘78. I’m not even around it, so I have no idea.

LOL..that was my first cigarette I had at 15!! Haven’t smoked in 28 years though!

I loved the tv commercials, people walking around with shiners….

Mom is as much a story teller as Ruthie is a drama queen.

wow. i have not given that jingle a thought in a long time. i feel old now.: (

“Winston tastes good like a (click, click) cigarette should.”

“A silly millimeter longer – 101” (sung to the tune of “La Bamba”

“Have a Lark, have a Lark, have a Lark today. There is nothing like the taste of Lark. Have a Lark!” (to the tune of “The William Tell Overture”.)

As did radio ads in 1971. They still advertise them in magazines, newspapers, and billboards to this day, but the familiar variations of warnings that you see on the side of the packs*.

*There’s also warnings for smokeless tobacco (chewing and snuff).

And don’t forget, “So round, so firm, so fully packed” (Pall Mall) and, “Call for Pheeeleep Mo-orris” (Phillip Morris) with the strains of The Grand Canyon Suite playing in the background. And the tapdancing packs of cigarettes with majorette boots on (Old Gold)

Good lord, I remember all of those cigarette ads and I never took up smoking… Had candy cigarettes in boxes similar to the real things. LOL

I liked the Kent commercials.“With a Dutchman, you have a big windmill,to a Scotsman, you have regiment,to a smoker, it’s the taste of Kent.”

All cigarettes are cancer sticks though.

Love One Big Happy and the current sequence is great fun. In the 40’s I listened to a radio quiz program that asked the participants to spell everything backwards. It was sponsored by Camel cigarettes and the chorus sang, “Take your seat in the Lemac box!”