Vintage tobacco ads

[Vlad]

I posted a thread about my recent interest in shaving ads. Well, that lead me to vintage tobacco adds. Check this one out. Is this where "Half & Half" came from?!




Check them out at vintageadbrowser.com

 

[The Count of Merkur Cristo]

1935

1929

1935

"There's nothing quite like tobacco...it soothes the soul". CBJ

 

[honed]

So absurd, but perfectly logical when it first came out...

 

[zatopus]

 

[SALBONE]

 

[SALBONE]

 

[Mike H]

I like this one...

 

[Blade Boy]

 

[Argonaut]

I gotta say, I find some of these ads endearing as a tobacco user, but some of them are a little bit "part of the problem" IMHO.

 

[CptBlueBear]

I find old ads endlessly amusing. Love these, especially the Marlborough series - holy inappropriate, Batman!

This is one of my favourites...



.. but I'm almost certain I saw the slogan originally in an ad for an English (geography rather than variety) pipe tobacco. Best I can find is this:



The page these images were shameless lifted from has a whole collection. My favourite is this



My first thought is that the night will get a whole lot more exciting when she sends that shirt up in flames with a careless touch of the lit end...