Imagine someone trying to quit smoking in the 70s And sees this True cigarettes ad 😅

@user-cs6up8eq7s

11 ай бұрын

Those things were nasty

@user-cs6up8eq7s

11 ай бұрын

They stop making true cigarette sometime in the 90s

These commercials were actually seen during 1970. Sinclair vanished, after they merged with Atlantic/Richfield to become "ARCO" (which is now part of "BP"). The True ad was among the last to be shown, before the ban on cigarette advertising began on January 2, 1971. Raquel's special ("Raquel!"), co-sponsored by Motorola, aired April 26, 1970 on CBS. Enzo Stuarti also recorded an album for Ragu {mail a dollar to them, and get his album, "That's a Nice"}.

As a songwriter, I really admire and respect whoever wrote that jingle song for True. I smoked a few True's when they first came out, but I didn't like them. Winstons and Pall Mall were my brands. Can't forget Camels

The leather coat is offered for $175, adjusted for inflation that's about $800 today.

The ban on cigarette advertising took effect 12:00 AM, January 2nd, 1971, so if these ads did ever air they would have had to play on January 1st.

@dr666demento

7 жыл бұрын

Yep, if that ad aired, it was likely during a New Year's Day bowl game. Cig companies sponsored many of them, so they delayed the ban.

@lobowolf9406

4 жыл бұрын

Yep

@skeetersaurus6249

4 жыл бұрын

Careful on claims. While it is true, you could NOT advertise a 'cigarette' on TV, Marlboro found a way around this until 1999 (the last year of 'the Cowboy' commercials)...you see, if you didn't show the pack open, or the cigarette, or it burning, you COULD advertise...so Marlboro had 'Marlboro GEAR' that you COULD advertise about...and, needless to say, you COULD make commercials about selling the GEAR (which just inadvertently hocked smoking, as a 'sideline'))...so if you feel you've 'seen a cigarette commercial since 1970 (I remember $0.25 a gallon gasoline, so sure I remember them)...it's because of the Marlboro Gear of the late 80's and 90's that you do!

@emmarose4234

3 жыл бұрын

Today, January 1, 2021, is the fiftieth anniversary.

@collegeman1988

3 жыл бұрын

Yeah, the tobacco companies tried to get as much cigarette advertising in as they could on the final day they were allowed to do so.

0:05 The 1st Huxtable I've ever heard of outside of The Cosby Show

Cigarettes in general, "you get all the flavor and cancer too". I ended my 17 year smoking habit in 2009 thankfully.

@DansFunMovies

4 жыл бұрын

that's true.

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

LOL

@collegeman1988

3 жыл бұрын

lol would’ve been funny if they switched the cigarette advertising jingles with more truthful advertising on that final day. The tobacco industry would’ve been sooooo pissed 😡.

@limapodima7534

3 жыл бұрын

Good for you! I quit a 45-year habit about 5 years ago!

@dwightpowell6673

2 жыл бұрын

@@limapodima7534 why did you quit....be prepared for a major weight gain...I gained 50 lbs.

I love that TRUE jingle. I would have bought a pack. LOL

@dennytoby

8 жыл бұрын

You still can. They're still made.

@garyhuffford6085

8 жыл бұрын

We talk about technology now but back then ,if you bought True cigarettes those packs had animated heads talking until they were thrown away.

@markdraper3469

6 жыл бұрын

compared to others at the time, they were weak, but easier to smoke than Carlton. They gave them away in the mail like others then. They changed the blend/ pack design later...got better.

@user-cs6up8eq7s

11 ай бұрын

​@@dennytobywhere

@dennytoby

11 ай бұрын

@@user-cs6up8eq7s You have to go to a tobacco shop or a place that carries them. Back in the day they were everywhere because cigarettes were not this expensive. Due to no advertising the only cigarettes carried are the popular ones. RJR makes these now and they are quite expensive. They are almost $15 a pack where I live. They are one of the most expensive brands on the market.

Harry Jacobson was a high end clothing store in Cleveland. It's been closed for many years.

@dwightpowell6673

2 жыл бұрын

Just like Barney's New York ...closed in 2020...so sad.

It looks weird seeing a cigarette ad on television.

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

You don't see cigarette ads on TV anymore or even in magazines or on billboards FTM

@Keithbarber

3 жыл бұрын

@@kenrutherford1109 yet once it was so common but it disappeared overnight and people didn't bat an eyelid

@HaywardEntertainment

2 жыл бұрын

In the 70s everything could kill ya Especially as on TV

It's amazing how important The New York Times was in 1971 and how they were respected as an objective and legitimate voice for not only New York City, but much of the United States. It's sad how journalism has fallen. It seems it either represents one point vs. the opposing point of view. Are their any truly objective thinkers in modern day media?

@shanewhitefeather6298

5 жыл бұрын

great point, erich, but grinn win is wrong

@johnhoward3042

5 жыл бұрын

That’s such a dumb response I don’t know where to start.

@CineSolutions

2 жыл бұрын

There never was a "truly objective" angle or point of view. Journalists conned the rest of us that their trade was scientific. Funny... They bring so much suffering in the world today. Curse them.

@hmbpnz

9 ай бұрын

I think perhaps *your* perspective has shifted. This just reeks of the bad faith "but both sides!" argument. What I would argue is that the media has shifted to serve only the very wealthy interests, due to the massive consolidation of media ownership.

@marcosjuarez7809

Ай бұрын

Oh, really? What kind of newspaper do you read? The Epoch Times?

The true jingle is my jam.

Instrumental version of Leaving on a Jet Plane in the background of the United commercial.

The graphic design on the True packaging and Raquel Welch are GORGEOUS !!

RIP David Bailey (in the United Airlines ad) and Enzo Stuarti (in the Ragu ad). In the True cigarettes ad, Don Morrow is the main spokesman there.

@frankdenardo8684

5 жыл бұрын

Todd Wacha united airlines forgot Banff, Lake Louise, (Calgary Alberta), Jasper(Edmonton), Whistler BC Canada.

@usmale4915

4 жыл бұрын

@@frankdenardo8684 But he did say COLORADO first. I'm a native of beautiful Denver, the Mile High City! Out skiing is probably the best. But that's just my biased opinion! lol /s

true - my first cigarettes in 1968, then marlboro, then camel lights. quit (for the final time) in '82

Love those 70's commercials

There was real love in these commercials.

when I quit smoking in 1976 it was True cigarettes that I quit. Best decision ever as my health would be trashed if i kept smoking those damn things...

@Lightsngear

9 жыл бұрын

How much were they back then? ... about .75 cents a pack?

@rxpro19

8 жыл бұрын

+Syrbuff ...was a cashier in 1980....cigs hit 77 cents....so in 71?....prob like 40 cents or so I guess

@Ferny1415

5 жыл бұрын

Hey man wanna try these new camel crush? I hear they are the real deal.

@Chris-xk4jw

3 жыл бұрын

My father quit in 1974 when the price was raised to $0.35 a pack.

@SarahKayeRen

3 жыл бұрын

@@rxpro19 I remember when they finally reached $1.00 in 1983. I was 10 years old.

Great stuff...love these little reminders about our past.

I just 💟this. I was y years old and remember some of these. Wish i could go back & experience this time as ad zdult. Without the smoking of course.

1:55 A beautiful, romantic, and appealing cigaret commercial from the twilight days of TV advertising for them. A catchy tune, with a beautiful folk guitar arrangement, which believe me, had I not known any better back then, I would have been easily swayed by this attractive couple

I have never smoked, but always liked the cigarette ads on TV when I was a child. They had jingles and some had funny skits.

I would've loved to have a TV where you could just pull a panel with the knobs, tubes, diodes and speaker out like that.

Mind-blowing! Thanks!

Love commercials of every decade !

R.I.P. Raquel Welch, the actress in the Motorola Commercial.

the quality of this is incredible

Note, cigarette ads were banned effective January 1, 1971 and that was the last day cigarette companies could run their ads. It was really a very big event.

@dariowiter3078

8 жыл бұрын

Actually, They were effectively banned in January 2, 1971, at 12:01 AM.

@RyanSchweitzer77

7 жыл бұрын

Yes, and IIRC, the last cigarette commercial aired then was for Virginia Slims during "The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson" on NBC.

@dariowiter3078

7 жыл бұрын

***** Exactly. 😃

@watershed44

7 жыл бұрын

+Ryan Schweitzer Anyone know where we can find that on KZread? The ad that is?

@vintagetvandexciting

6 жыл бұрын

M.W. Johnson Japan was still airing cigarette commercials up to the 1980s (ex Lark with James Coburn)

Great quality. You can hear the audio print-through from the quad master! I had forgotten about that effect. I particularly remember the complicated lyrics on the RAGU spot.

The good old days!

Interesting to note that ragus jar label design hasn't really changed since this time. :)

Spectacular. Terrific. Thank you for posting these!

That Ragu ad must have driven people crazy after one or two viewings. The cigarette ad is a hoot. I think that's David Bailey in the United ad.

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

That Ragú ad drives me crazy too 😡😡😡

Funny how these commercials are shot on videotape, even though film was the standard for advertising back then.

@jmdocs

Жыл бұрын

More commercials were shot on tape in those days than we realize today - since the ones that have circulated over the years were all 16mm prints, either individually or included in 16mm network prints of shows, but the 2" tape copies were nearly impossible to distribute. In this case, this tape was clearly a demo tape for a production house that specialized in videotape commercials - how it ended up in the Nixon White House Communications Agency collection is a mystery, but I suspect that someone sent it as a demo to possibly shoot tape commercials for the Nixon 1972 campaign. And the campaign did use videotaped commercials, especially "man on the street" type things.

The creator of Ragu (who sold it to Cheesboro-Ponds in 1970 I believe) went on to later create Francesco Rinaldi. Both brands of course continue to exist to this day.

Wow cigarette commercial takes me back

Raquel Welch was (and still is) so gorgous!

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

Especially in that dress

OMG shirts with the ring-zipper pull-down in the middle, I had like 4 pairs of those back in '70-'71, they were the bomb!

@usmale4915

4 жыл бұрын

I had one that was orange in color and a pair of hot pants for men. I can't believe I used to wear that style.

Wow so these were the commercials the year I was born?!

@corybee1

8 жыл бұрын

Thx Terri

@terrismajek4143

8 жыл бұрын

+corybee1 Thx? For what?

@usmale4915

4 жыл бұрын

I was slinging booze in 1971, which means I had to be at least 21 years of age. Perhaps people can figure out my age by my "user name"!

1971. The year I was born.

WOW, Ragu with Enzo Stuartie.......I remember those commercials!!!!

Raquel Welch went to La Jolla High School in SD.

Whar a great yr that was for me..thx for the memories

You would have to be Hercules to steal a 📺 back then 😂🤣

Terrific jingle in that True cigarettes ad.

On the Ragu commercial, "Jason" is Darryl Seaman, who played "Paulie" on a couple of the "Here Come the Brides" episodes.

Me and my family used to have a Motorola-era Quasar TV almost exactly like the one in front featured at 3:04, it was a hand-me-down given to us around 1987 from my grandparents who bought it new back in the early 70s, and had upgraded their set at the time (to a new RCA XL100 set with cable-ready digital tuning and all). IIRC, it was a "works in a drawer" set just like the one featured here. In spite of some of the other comments here mentioning how unreliable those Motorola-built Quasar sets were (probably part of the reason why Moto sold Quasar to Panasonic/Matsushita around '74), it was a great set though and never gave us any problems that I can remember. I remember it had a great picture, especially since we also just got cable TV around the same time. My grandparents even kept the manual that came with the set, and strangely, the manual was both an owner's and service manual (it even had printed screenshots of oscilloscope displays of signals at certain points in the TV's circuitry as a guide for TV servicemen).

The last cigarette commercial on TV aired 1 minute before the ban went into effect,at 11:59 pm January 1,1971 on The Tonight Show Starring Johnny Carson.It was a commercial for Virginia Slims cigarettes.After thatt,the ban took effect and cigarette ads on TV were no more.

The last of the cigarette ads around that time before they were outlawed after 1971.

@hoss73ford

9 жыл бұрын

TimelordR I remember that, it took effect on January 1st, 1971

@spectrum10

4 жыл бұрын

@@hoss73ford It took effect on January 2nd, 1971 at midnight.

Excellent !!

Man, Back in 1971, Raquel Welch looked an awful lot like Carmen Electra. Gorgeous.

I love this video! The clarity is uncommonly clear for 1970-71. How did you manage that?

@ApartmentKing66

3 жыл бұрын

Wide video tape. 2" or 4"

Wierd holding my little phone device and watching this .what a simple time .compared to now .lol

Yes, as one of the commenters noted below, this actual tape was created in January 1971, showing commercials that would have aired in 1970.

Raquel is so lovely.

@danmseattle975

5 жыл бұрын

I had a massive crush on Raquel Welch when I was a kid

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

I agree! I love her dress

What was she doing down there in the True commercial LMFAO

Had to watch these cigarette comercials

"*You get all the flavor and a filter, too.*" And they don't say it's a matter of life and breath?

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

"It's a matter of life and breath" was the slogan of the American Lung Association

Liked the ARCO spot at 1:34. I had a good friend who had a Sinclair station that went to ARCO around 1970.

@WAQWBrentwood

8 жыл бұрын

IIRC there was still a Sinclair branded station in Pennsylvania!

@TheBrooklynbodine

8 жыл бұрын

I didn't know that. As far as I know, there are still ARCO stations, but they're out west.

@WAQWBrentwood

8 жыл бұрын

All kinds of confusion in the gasoline retail biz! It's surprising where some old names have been retained! and many stations keep changing brands - I know a Pittsburgh gas station that was a Marathon,Gulf and finally a Sunoco. Oddly all three brands have an historical connection to Pittsburgh. Both Gulf and Sun Oil's predecessor started here and Marathon was (is?) headquartered here.

@usmale4915

4 жыл бұрын

@@TheBrooklynbodine We still have some Sinclair stations here in the Denver, CO area. In fact, there is one about 12 blocks from my apartment!

@TheBrooklynbodine

4 жыл бұрын

How about that! I have a Sinclair transistor radio that I would guess is over 50 years old. It takes one 9-volt battery, and maybe someday I'll get it fixed up. It's AM only, but I love it to death just the same. I looked for this commercial, and your e-mail led me to it.

"What's your pasta?" "Farfalli" XD

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

That commercial for Ragú is the stuipdest I have ever seen in my whole life

Wow, a cigarette commercial! And TV on wheels! lol!

I'm sure they were, but they had to have been shown at other times as well. A few years ago I went to the Museum of Television & Radio to watch an episode of "That Girl" from 1967 so I could spot Teri Garr, and they had all the commericals on their videotape, including cigarette commercials(I think it was Kent or Lark, or something like that, I forget). FYI, Lew Parker was a chain smoker himself who died in 1972.

@quadvideotape: Where did you get these ads in such amazing quality?

Real good jingle.

beautifull days. los extrano mucho.

wow.....I haven't seen that Ragu commercial in nearly 50 years! I don't remember the captions on the bottom though.

That United Airlines Commercial is perfect.

@WAQWBrentwood

8 жыл бұрын

That actually is a great ad. Less cheesy than most of the era.

Mmmm! The delicious clean, beautiful flavor of True cigarettes; now with new micronite filter with asbestos! It’s true...

"True gives you everything you've ever wanted in a cigarette." As a smoker of some 45 years, I still don't know what it is I've ever wanted in a cigarette. Of all I am certain, around 1970, I screwed up big time in order to be cool and groovy...hack, hack....

@TheCShowHostedbyChris

8 жыл бұрын

Damn are you still a smoker robert?

@robertglenn5398

8 жыл бұрын

Yeah, you got a problem with that?

@TheCShowHostedbyChris

8 жыл бұрын

robert glenn mom just had all those bypasses. Me I could give a good god damn. I quit 15 months ago. Guess how much I saved? If you want to smoke by all means light another.

@robertglenn5398

8 жыл бұрын

Really, I have to quit.Too expensive and I am just tired of the shit.

@TheCShowHostedbyChris

8 жыл бұрын

robert glenn get a vaporizer I quit 15 months ago saved over 2 grand

I remember trying True cigarettes back in the late 70s. They used to sell them 2 packs for the price of 1 all the time at walgreens here. They tasted ok. There were lots worse. Barclay were one of the nastiest cigs Ive smoked.

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

I wouldn't know that. I've never smoked True cigarettes or even Barclay FTM

True cigs. I remember that commercial.

Wow that cigarette ad must be if not THE very last aired on TV

I have no idea why, but I find the ragu commercial strangely hilarious

Good one.

The best tasting cigarette for your cancer announcement

Funny, because I was born in 1965, and I do remember cigarette commercials.

4:33 - to end: One of THE FIRST videos with Ian McShane in it! From Airline Ski Commercials in 1971, to John Wick in the 2010's...quite a long path up!

This was actually from 1970, as Sinclair, Atlantic, and Richfield became ARCO that year and the Quasar spot was for an April 1970 special.

@TheBrooklynbodine

3 жыл бұрын

@49jubilee I've lived in West Virginia all my life and never saw a Richfield station around these parts, but saw plenty of Sinclairs and Atlantics.

"When you smoke true, you get all the flavor and the filter too" Not to mention cancers, COPD, diabetes, smoker's cough, and emphysema! I wanted to be a smart butt!

@kenrutherford1109

3 жыл бұрын

That's probably why cigarette commercials were banned

the end of the era for cigarette commercials

These commercials are in good condition!

Wow, a beautiful singing brunette encouraging me to smoke. Lol. I just wish i had seen this commercial back then when i was age 11 in 1971, if i did i would have started smoking a lot sooner. Lol. Of course, i shouldnt joke about this...

Love cigarette Commercials

The Motorola TV spot at 3:00 was from 1970. I looked through microfilms of newspapers, and the show that Motorola sponsored was April 1970, so that's the date on this set of ads.

@TheBrooklynbodine

8 жыл бұрын

In later years, Quasar dropped the "Works in a Drawer" feature. I think the selling point was that it made the sets easier to service, but at another youtube spot, namely "The Quasar Color TV System", somebody posted that it should have been called "Works on the Floor". Maybe it wasn't an advantage after all.

@tomservo56954

8 жыл бұрын

I read something that stated Motorola developed the Quasar brand specifically to enable the company to sell off the TV production division at some point (which they did, to Matsushita Electronics, who already marketed the Panasonic and Technics brands)

@TheBrooklynbodine

8 жыл бұрын

I read in a book, which I still have, but right now forget the title, that toward the end of Motorola's TV-making days, that their TV sets were leaving the factory with 150 (sic) defects for every 100 sets. That averages out to 1.5 defects for every set. Also, I read at Wikipedia that the Quasar brand was dormant for several years, but about tow or three years ago, Panasonic revived it.

@TheBrooklynbodine

7 жыл бұрын

Regrettably, I didn't. I never watched "I Love Lucy" that much, but if I ever get the chance, I'd watch every episode I missed.

@TheBrooklynbodine

7 жыл бұрын

I totally agree. I just got done watching it, and hope to watch other episodes in the beginning.

1:56 that looks like Sapphire's gem, STEVEN UNIVERSE REFERENCE!

BTW, Sinclair really didn't vanish. It was kept alive as a division of ARCO in a few scattered stations in the Northern Midwest and Great Plains.

The kid at the end of the pasta commercial with the blue shirt looks like the original Karate Kid (Ralph Machano)

How and on what kind of media are these old commercials found from? I know one that had a VCR before like 1980. Guess they were stored on video tape?

40 years from 2015 what will people be looking back at and ridiculing us for?

@LNSmithee

8 жыл бұрын

+werksdesign Probably electing Trump, Hillary, or Bernie.

@markkernmantle9232

8 жыл бұрын

There won't be anyone to be looking back to ridicule us if Trump is elected.

@Zoomer30

8 жыл бұрын

Phones you couldn't control with your mind.

@WAQWBrentwood

8 жыл бұрын

All old ads seem ridiculous unless you're old enough to have seen them new! It's like music - Disco seems silly to those under 50, to the 50-65 crowd it's "nostalgic" LOL!

@TheBrooklynbodine

8 жыл бұрын

I wonder the same thing. Wonder if hip-hop music will be around in 2055. I know things change, but I can't imagine 2055. If I'm still living, I'll be 92.

Where's my truth cigarettes? The smooth tasting menthol takes me back. When I was ignorant and have virgin lungs. Iol

the smokes commercial was hilarious

@shutthefrontdoor4752

8 жыл бұрын

I like it! didnt know Motorola was that old.

It feels weird now to see a 60 second spot. Seems the 30 second is going away these days for 10 or 15 second hits.

now i can see how Raquel Welch filled my dad's spank tank in '71 lol

New York Times - 0:04 Harry Jacobson - 1:04 Arco - 1:33 True - 1:56 Motorola - 2:58 Ragu - 3:30 United Airlines - 4:31

Pretty sure that Ragu guy wouldn't be allowed within 1000 feet of a school now a days.

@birdsfan57

4 жыл бұрын

Enzo Stuarti was a real gentleman and an amazing singer who had a pretty illustrious career before those Ragu ads. It's a shame that that's all he seems to be remembered for. Stereotyping at its worst!

It is. Strangely though, all of the Eagles which used to surround the top of the old station razed in the 60's, still survive. Locally in the NYC area, two are facing 7th Avenue... One is by the Hicksville LIRR station. Two are at the entrance of the NJ Botanical Gardens entrance in Ringwood, NJ...

This song needs a remix

The True cigarette felt like it wasn't lit when you went to inhale .

That Ragu commercial. Ouch!